Seeing autism as a natural variation of human beings, the emerging paradigm of neurodiversityseeks recognition of difference for its community. In its struggle for justice, the neurodiversityparadigm needs to rely on a theoretical spatial framework to assert its ‘right to the city’. Thequestion that arises here is how urban planning theory, as the field concerned with themateriality of the built environment, can inform neurodiversity in its pursuit of spatial justice.Conducting an interdisciplinary scoping review, this study intends to identify research gaps byexploring the literature on autism and the built environment. The results of the review suggestthat there exists a theoretical gap in the neurodiversity paradigm in relation to spatial justiceand the rights of the autistic community to the urban built environment. The study posits thaturban planning theory has the potential to provide the neurodiversity paradigm with a spatialtheoretical framework to exercise the right of the neurodivergent community to the city.Although the primary audience of this study is academics working at the intersection ofautism and the built environment, the results are deemed helpful for interdisciplinarypractitioners and policymakers aiming to promote inclusive urban spaces