Abdul Khakee, Angela Hull, Donald Miller, and Johan Woltjer
Ashgate
Hardback
344
2008
Urban and regional planning is currently suffering from a lack of deeper organising principles for self-understanding, action and critique and, despite ongoing technical and professional advances, is often far less effective than we might hope. This book seeks a beginning for resolving these problems by providing a clear theoretical position derived from the work of Juergen Habermas. By applying this theory to a revisitation of communicative planning, it puts forward valuable new conceptual tools which are then tested on applied research into an Australian planning system. The approach taken in the book will be able to be adapted to other settings. Further, the book is a demonstration of a way for critical theory to suggest positive change to existing planning systems by providing clear normative guidance for planning action, allied with a strong critical lens.
Ashgate
Hardback
344
2008
Urban and regional planning is currently suffering from a lack of deeper organising principles for self-understanding, action and critique and, despite ongoing technical and professional advances, is often far less effective than we might hope. This book seeks a beginning for resolving these problems by providing a clear theoretical position derived from the work of Juergen Habermas. By applying this theory to a revisitation of communicative planning, it puts forward valuable new conceptual tools which are then tested on applied research into an Australian planning system. The approach taken in the book will be able to be adapted to other settings. Further, the book is a demonstration of a way for critical theory to suggest positive change to existing planning systems by providing clear normative guidance for planning action, allied with a strong critical lens.