All Rights ReservedYiftachel, Oren2025-01-232025-01-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2495Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southLanding? Despite constantly invoking inclusive concepts such as democracy, social justice or right to the city, planning theory has remained largely silent on key factors shaping the vast majority of contemporary cities – particularly in the global South-East. These include, intra-alia, land regimes, mass immigration and refugeeness, urban citizenship, collective identities, violence, and the emergence of (neo) colonial relations in many of the world's large cities. These are not only central to the making and transformation of the urban, but strongly intertwined with spatial public policies, that is, planning. The paper argues and demonstrates, that in order to be effective, planning theory must 'land' into the material and political reality prevalent in the majority of cities during the early C21. To do this, it will have to build on promising new beginnings already evident in the literature, and seriously deal with new types of urbanism surfacing in all corners of the world, typified by what Sophie Watson termed 'the stubborn realities' of the global South-East.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject**-**