In recent years, the widespread use of social media has increasingly impacted planning
practice and policy making. Although a growing body of literature examines the impact of …

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 …

Social acceptance is a key challenge for the deployment of wind energy and could limit the
overall wind resource we are able to exploit to meet climate change targets. Social …

What is required of the citizen to make planning more democratic? In this article, I argue this
previously overlooked question illuminates key challenges for democratising planning in …

Many studies have shown that natural resource abundant countries with strong institutions
tend to escape the resource curse. Institutional quality has been examined using broad …

Rights are central to the theory and practice of planning, and to the practice of struggles for
those who are marked by conditions of dispossession and displacement. Those rights are …

Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out
pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is …

In Western liberal democracies the planning of mega transport infrastructure projects is
guided by public interest claims typically expressed through legislation and political …

Social media has recently become a networked public sphere for social interactions and
power struggles in planning practice. However, little research has been done to understand …

Social acceptance is a key challenge for the deployment of wind energy and could limit the
overall wind resource we are able to exploit to meet climate change targets. Social …