Probably in the late aughts actually.

I may have seen the same talk! I saw Matias & Rahul Srivastava showing juxtaposed photos of Mumbai and Tokyo in the early aughts at Parsons in NYC. I was a much younger architect and sustainable design instructor then - not so much critical theory afflicted yet, LOL - and it was very eye opening.

Good fun fact! The questions might be not only whether planners as such can ever plan spaces like this but also how they/we might take more seriously informal and illicit practices as key aspects of planning.

To be clear, I'm saying it should be the most important, I'm not saying it is...

I'm currently based in Japan and couldn't be at the ACSP conference for the award ceremony, but they let me record a video message! Check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMte...

Here's the book Beyond Sanctuary, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. www.dukeupress.edu/beyond-sanct...