While the participatory and discursive planning approaches have been a companion to the rational, science-informed planning approach for decades, the decisions have not adequately addressed the most critical issues in urban development: the loss of urban biodiversity, ecological fragmentation, the impacts of climate change, and the expansion of gentrification. The emergence of metamodern planning theory may offer a potential way forward. It bridges modernism and postmodernism with situated material semiotics, nature cultural niche construction, and organic multispecies design principles. In my presentation, I explicate the theory's requirements for urban land use planning and discuss its implications for pursuing urban eco-social recovery. The metamodern approach aims to overcome many old dichotomies and binaries. I conclude by examining whether the conceptual and empirical aspects of a meta-modernism for planning are robust enough to be considered a theory, and especially a practically relevant urban planning theory.