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ABSTRACT
This article addresses the following question what do Mexican planners do? The analysis of planning practice in this article is based on a survey of 141 planning practitioners in Mexico. The findings suggest that practice is still embedded in the institutionalized mode of technical rational planning and unable to deal with the ‘stubborn realities’ of urban and social inequities that are part of a historical legacy or path dependency that is difficult to change.
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Notes
1. Authors such as Watson (Citation2013) and Yiftachel (Citation2006) use the idea of ‘south-east’ as a concept to cluster all regions or countries that do not conform to the logics and norms of the hegemonic planning literature that comes from the U.S. UK and the rest of Europe or the ‘north-west.’ I will use the same distinction even though Mexico is a hybrid of western traditions and a developing country with a colonial past facing similar issues of those south-eastern nations.