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Communicative planning and the transformative potential of citizen-led participation

In: Handbook on Planning and Power

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  • Crystal Legacy

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Critical scholars lament that planning’s focus on communicative rationality and consensus-building limits who can challenge, where they challenge and how they might challenge the hegemonic logics shaping spatial planning in neoliberal planning contexts. The transformative potential of communicative planning initially envisaged by its foundational thinkers, has instead become a useful instrument of the state to mobilise its power, and do so in a way that leaves that power unquestioned. In considering the potential for communicative planning, I explore the question: what is the potential of communicative planning to evolve in response to informal citizen-led participation that dis-identifies from formal planning, and in doing so challenges power? In acknowledging the limits of communicative planning as a formal practice of the state, I argue the potential of communicative planning to become a citizen-led, reflective community of practice that is constantly finding new grounding to meet the complex and changing needs of citizens in their respective cities and regions.

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  • Crystal Legacy, 2023. "Communicative planning and the transformative potential of citizen-led participation," Chapters, in: Michael Gunder & Kristina Grange & Tanja Winkler (ed.), Handbook on Planning and Power, chapter 9, pages 134-148, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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