This monogram suggests that while planning seeks ertainty and the avoidance of conflict in
its practices, this is at best an unrealisable fantasy, an unfulfillable desire for security in …

The number of countries with a national development plan has more than doubled, from
about 62 in 2006 to 134 in 2018. More than 80 per cent of the global population now lives in …

In an urbanizing world there is an increasing priority for making cities nature-inclusive
environments. Cities offer places for human-wildlife experiences, and thus for broad societal …

The futility of defining planning suggests that there is no planning as a recognizable
practice. Sociology of knowledge definitions imply three kinds of planning practices:(1) …

The paper aims at discussing the reciprocity of developing a dialogue between urban
planning and degrowth by arguing for two interactive processes:'spatialising degrowth'and …

Shadows of Power examines public policy and in particular, the communicative processes of
policy and decision-making. It explore the important who, how and why issues of policy …

The legitimization of planning has, in the period since the Second World War, rested on the
proposition that the state's intervention in land and property development is necessary to …

Conflict is immanent to planning, and perhaps particularly to practice within a pluralistic,
multicultural society. Chantal Mouffe argues that there is a political need for an 'agonistic …

Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently
characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long …

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to an emerging body of critique of communicative
planning theory (CPT). The critiques in the paper are grounded in analysis of situated …