The critical literature on participation warns that a focus on 'consensus' evades the political
in planning, preventing citizens from confronting and challenging discourse and prevailing …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways that the top-down and the bottom-up
approaches to planning can be combined in the practice of planning standards. In the first …

Names: Rydin, Yvonne, 1957–editor.| Tate, Laura Ellen, 1966–editor. Title: Actor networks of
planning: exploring the influence of ANT/Yvonne Rydin and Laura Tate,[editors] …

Communicative planning has been one of the most discussed topics in planning research of
the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Planning systems have evolved to include …

Power and domination have a considerable presence everywhere in society. Power-
dynamic forces play a significant role in institutional practices, agenda-setting, decision …

In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across
the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks …

Perhaps the whole question, does planning theory affect practice?, 1 is irrelevant. After all,
Deleuzian theory would presuppose that the signified 'practice'is just a neomodernist …

Planners make judgements in their daily work–they define a problem, they formulate
objectives or implement certain instruments to develop, with and for others, good or …

The post-positivist corpus of planning theory is replete with myriad theoretical interpretations
of planning practice. Yet the theory–practice gap remains. This article seeks to explain this …

Conventional typologies that seek to categorise indicators of urban sustainability tend to
draw upon the neoliberal, silo approach for conceptualising sustainability, which positions …