ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a pervasive trait of planning and architecture from the mid-1960s onward: their tendency to cast their objectives in a mode of incompletion. The study focusses on two major planning exercises, initially celebrated but later widely recognized as failures, to elucidate the conditions driving incompletion: the Ford Foundation’s planning mission in Calcutta, India, and Candilis Josic Woods’s plan for the Le Mirail extension in Toulouse, France. The chapter argues that this sensibility of incompletion essentially reflected a responsivity to radical shifts in global state-fiscal outlooks against a fraying Bretton Woods arrangement at the end of the 1960s.
