Gunder, Robert2011-08-302006Journal of Planning Education and Research 26(2):208-221 20060739-456Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/2292/7544This article explores the concept—sustainability—as a transcendental ideal of planning purpose and value. The article critically argues that sustainability largely has been captured and deployed under a narrative of sustainable development in a manner that stifles the potential for substantive social and environmental change, all of which constitutes new purpose, legitimacy, and authority for the discipline of planning and its practitioners while potentially sustaining or creating adverse social and environmental injustices. These are injustices that planning traditionally attempted to address but now often obscures under the primacy of the economic imperative within dominant institutional interpretations of the sustainable development narrative.Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0739-456X/https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htmJournal Article10.1177/0739456X06289359Copyright: 2006 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planninghttp://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess