Provincializing planning: Reflections on spatial ordering and imperial power

This paper takes the development of British town planning movement as its starting point to explore a series challenges for discipline’s historiography. The emergence professional field involved circulation ideas beyond metropolitan core colonial territories with spatial interventions that were deemed both physically and morally beneficial. explores role played by discipline in developing spatialized forms ethnic racial differentiation within territories. I conclude has largely ignored own historiography, including legacy, enabling assert socially progressive profession.