Public participation in planning politics is a legal right in many countries. Planners often see themselves as the defenders of public interests, whereas planning studies may see public planning as the institutionalization of politics, the politicized management or government of disputes on planning issues. Public participation is ultimately a political decision, and this article focuses on how phrases like planning is ‘a work in progress’ and agonistic consensus is a ‘solution for now’ in fact add a critical issue to planning politics: such statements indicate that planning should be seen as an unfinished process, and decisions as temporary. A ‘solution for now’ literally means a ‘planning for-the-time-being’ and a ‘coming-back-to’, highlighting that there are processual issues unresolved within planning praxis. Politics and planning cannot be separated. Two cases of urban planning conflict—the struggle of the homeless for shelter and the Occupy movement—show this: they are used to discuss how planning politics may benefit from having a temporary resting place and being unfinished.

在许多国家，公众参与政治规划是一项合法权利。计划者通常将自己视为公共利益的捍卫者，而计划研究则可能将公共计划视为政治制度化，政治化管理或计划问题争议的政府。公众参与最终是一项政治决定，本文重点讨论计划等短语是如何“进行中的工作”，而激烈的共识是“目前的解决方案”，实际上是在计划政治中增加了关键问题：此类陈述表明，计划应该被视为未完成的过程，而决定则是暂时的。“立即解决方案”的字面意思是“暂时规划”和“回归”，突出说明了规划实践中尚未解决的过程性问题。政治和计划不能分开。有两个城市规划冲突的案例，即无家可归者在住房方面的斗争和占领运动，表明了这一点：它们被用来讨论规划政治如何可以从拥有临时休养所和未完成的工作中受益。