A turning point for planning theory? Overcoming dividing discourses

After communicative planning theory emerged in the 1980s, challenging assumptions and prevailing theories of planning, debates ensued among planning theorists that led to apparently opposing groups with little space for mutual learning. The most difficult obstacle is that critiques of communicative...

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Published in:Planning theory (London, England) England), 2015-05, Vol.14 (2), p.195-213
Main Authors: Innes, Judith E, Booher, David E
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