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Making Strategies in Spatial Planning - Knowledge and Values (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
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Making Strategies in Spatial Planning - Knowledge and Values (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives, 9
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This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas
of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis
and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we
need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let
me suggest several avenues of such rethinking that can have both
theoretical and practical consequences. First, we need to overcome
simplistic bifurcations or dichotomies of assessing outcomes and
processes separately from one another. To lapse into the nostalgia
of imagining that outcome analysis can exhaust strategic planners'
work might appeal to academics content to study 'what should be',
but it will doom itself to further irrelevance, ignorance of
politics, and rationalistic, technocratic fantasies. But to lapse
into an optimism that 'good process' is all that strategic planning
requires, similarly, rests upon a ction that no credible planning
analyst believes: that enough talk will miraculously transcend con
ict and produce agreement. Neither sing- minded approach can work,
for both avoid dealing with con ict and power, and both too easily
avoid dealing with the messiness and the practicalities of
negotiating out con icting interests and values - and doing so in
ethically and politically critical ways, far from resting content
with mere 'compromise'. Second, we must rethink the sanctity of
expertise. By considering analyses of planning outcomes as
inseparable from planning processes, these accounts help us to see
expertise and substantive analysis as being 'on tap', ready to put
into use, rather than being particularly and technocratically 'on
top'.
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