ABSTRACT
Modern architecture and planning's role in the post war development arena can be explained in a similar light. In the development discourse, architecture and planning have constantly overstepped their circumscription as tools of implementing particular development approaches and have created legitimacy for economic and policy initiative. The architect's role as an activist is to quickly step in, and out, as a catalyst of the formalization, to translate the dormant aspirations of the communities into social and economic value. The concept of the megacity, without the articulation of its specific historical and epistemological basis, serves as an alibi that only preserves the future of the activist architect, curator, and museum. Architecture and planning's primary role on the global platform has been to create terms of legitimacy and access that satisfy the requirements of partial incorporation of the decolonizing world into the circuits of global capital.
