This article addresses the relationship between scientific knowledge, planning and sustainability. The paradigms of modern science and planning are analyzed, as well as their role in the process of capital creation, generating what is coming to be known as the society of knowledge. This analysis serves as the starting point for a two-fold reflection: first, on the peripheral insertion of Brazil in the society of knowledge, and second, on the how independent planning can be instrumental in attaining economic and social sustainability.
science; planning; sustainability