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Communicative and participatory paradigm in the European territorial policies. A discourse analysis

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  • Łukasz Damurski
  • Marcin Oleksy

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Communicative planning has been widely criticized for having little to do with the official legal procedures and for low-quality spatial solutions. It has also been blamed to be an empty concept, referring to an action that in itself has no content. This critique gives ground to the question: what is actually the role of the communicative and participatory paradigm in contemporary territorial policies? In this paper, we adopt discourse analysis methods to study the European documents on spatial planning in their three characteristic strands: smart city, integrated planning and multilevel governance. By extracting eight core principles (governance, sustainability, communication, participation, resilience, innovation, cooperation and coordination), we measure the importance of the communicative and participatory paradigm in the current planning discourse in Europe. We find that despite critique it remains one of the fundamental building-blocks of the European territorial policy. Communicative planning principles are visibly present in all the analysed strands of spatial planning in Europe.

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  • Łukasz Damurski & Marcin Oleksy, 2018. "Communicative and participatory paradigm in the European territorial policies. A discourse analysis," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(7), pages 1471-1492, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:26:y:2018:i:7:p:1471-1492
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1462302
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    1. Miroslav Kopáček, 2021. "Land-Use Planning and the Public: Is There an Optimal Degree of Civic Participation?," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-15, January.
    2. Malk, Mattias, 2024. "When the first train departs…Understanding the work of imaginaries in infrastructural renewal in Pärnu, Estonia," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    3. Giovanni Quaranta & Cristina Dalia & Luca Salvati & Rosanna Salvia, 2019. "Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(24), pages 1-15, December.
    4. Márton Czirfusz, 2021. "The concept of solidarity in cohesion policies of the European Union and Hungary," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 39(5), pages 919-937, August.

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