ABSTRACT
Planning is basically a quest to make the world or life flat, to freeze the present, to make things out of processes and to transform ambivalence into certainty. The paradox is that the planners themselves claim that they think. They analyse, make calculations and draw logical conclusions. In light of the psycho-analytical tradition, one have identified the problem of alienation and hence the books main problem as a constitutive element of all human existence. Dionysus has reigned at the expense of Apollo and this new discourse on space has resulted in the conclusion that urbanity can be basically anything. The perspective of space syntax advocates differs in another way, too; it seems to regard city building as an infinite not finite game. The argument is that people in general and the planner in particular, are not only objects cogs in a bureaucratic machine but also ethically responsible subjects, beings with a certain acting space.
