The geography of planning practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Forester (0000-0003-4109-1765, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-180 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d010163 |
| OpenAlex | W4250071460 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 31 |
Planning practice is a contingent situated activity. The anatomy of planning practice may be understood as a structure of communicative action involving claims regarding content and context, thus systematically presenting questions and demanding judgments in the face both of uncertainty and of ambiguity. Practical communicative claims are established in the planning process through the ongoing social reproduction of beliefs, consent, trust, and attention. If planners are to be sensitive to these processes of social reproduction, they must be attentive to four dimensions of the geography of their practice: a cognitive geography of knowledge production, a political-legal geography of power and consent, a ritual geography of social identity, and an economic-resource geography of attention. Recognizing this structure and field of practical action, planners may enhance social learning, resisting threats to democratizing movements, in part by distinguishing and protecting learning processes in two dimensions, the technical and the practical. Refusing to reduce issues of normative ambiguity to issues of technical uncertainty, planners may themselves continue to learn about the political and normative aspects of their practice and so foster, rather than render apolitical, democratic social-learning processes
Action (physics · Ambiguity · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · Environmental planning · Epistemology · Geography · Normative · Political science · Politics · Practice theory · Public relations · Regional science · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Planning and Valuation · Urbanization and City Planning
Viewing Your Kapwa
Reading Between the Lines
Hear the Rime of the Fellow Mariner? A Letter to the Next Generation of Emphatic Co-Creators in Planning
Evaluating Plans Pragmatically
Why agonistic planning? Questioning Chantal Mouffe’s thesis of the ontological primacy of the political
Planning Threatened
The Institutional Focus of Planning Theory
Emerging Knowledge about Planning Practice
Writing the Planner
Planning and Applied Geography
Perceptual and behavioural theory in practice
Planning and applied geography
A Materialist Basis for Planning Theory and Practice
On Planning Practice
Ambiguity and choice in organizations
Power
Planning in the Face of Power
Critical Theory and Planning Practice
Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity, and the Engineering of Choice
A Retrospective View of Equity Planning Cleveland 1969–1979
Communication and the Evolution of Society
Participation and Democratic Theory
The Structure of Chaos
Power and Powerlessness
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Introduction to Critical Theory
Urban Planning as Professional Mediation of Territorial Politics
Community planning and conceptions of change
The importance of nonobjective judgments in environmental impact assessments
Questioning and Organizing Attention
Policy Analysis
A Critical Empirical Framework for the Analysis of Public Policy
The Policy Analysis-Critical Theory Affair
On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time
Political conflict, urban structure, and the fiscal crisis1
Pragmatic radicalism
Organizational Learning
Central Problems in Social Theory
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2024 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |