Urbanism and Planning for the City through the Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is an inherently spatial that focuses on the ways in which human and non-human elements are arranged into heterogeneous and multiple agencements. The main concern of this philosophy is becomings belong to geography; becomings which are more than a simply assemblage and have the ability to bringing-into-existence of its own agency that called an “agencement”. What makes an assemblage into an agencement is the relations between the entities or elements. Therefore, what is important are the relations between the elements, rather than the elements themselves. This paper seeks to explain how such a philosophy can be used as an analytical and critical framework that help us understand the way realities in urbanity and urban planning comes into being and changes over time. One of the most important lessons that urbanists have learned from Deleuze's philosophy was that they should focus on constructive becomings and the processes by which urban realities are bringing-into-existence, whilst the concern of urban planners should also be to help produce multiple, empowering, open, creative, democratic and inclusive urban spaces.