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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"communicative planning"”.
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How do we know? Determining school district fiscal and administrative policy in rural Hispanic boomtowns in the Midwest
… the public’s preferences. One such mechanism is communicative planning. In communicative planning, the community’s preferences are revealed not through voting but through dialog with one another. By conversing with one another, we learn about ourselves and others and are changed through the …
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A Major Wind Farm Development in a Valued Natural Environment: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of public responses to a proposed wind farm on the Island Of Lewis, Scotland
… environment contained within stakeholders’ planning submissions. Although relatively underutilised planning submissions proved to be a rich source of research data. The principal findings revealed the extent to which stakeholders’ discourses of objection were shaped through interactions at …
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A major wind farm development in a valued natural environment : a thematic discourse analysis of public responses to a proposed wind farm on the Island of Lewis, Scotland
… environment contained within stakeholders' planning submissions. Although relatively underutilised planning submissions proved to be a rich source of research data. The principal findings revealed the extent to which stakeholders' discourses of objection were shaped through interactions at …
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Towards a transdisciplinary approach to rural electrification planning for universal access in India
… best electrification mode for a given area. New planning approaches are needed in the face of these challenges. Technoeconomic planning methods typically dominate rural electrification planning, yet many obstacles face rural electrification planners that are not technoeconomic. This thesis posits …
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Environmental integration in infrastructure planning: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the trans-European transport network
<p>Planning theory is turning again towards the question of power, particularly in relation to recent claims to a new communicative planning 'paradigm'. This thesis investigates how Foucauldian discourse analytics, embracing concepts of discourse, power/knowledge, rationality and space can …
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Participatory Planning and the Global South: A Case Study of Local Planning and Development in Vrygrond
… inequality, and informality. Mainstream planning theories have tended to originate from the North, responding to a context that differs greatly from that of cities of the South where theories have been uncritically adopted and imposed. State planning systems in developing countries often …
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Neoliberal Planning in Practice: Use Value or Exchange Value? A Post-Positivist Investigation of Auckland’s Housing Affordability Issues
… hegemonic ideology of neoliberalism influences planning policymaking to redirect the role of the institutional dimensions of planning policies from use value towards exchange value. Consequently, the contradiction between use value and exchange value contributes as a structural factor to housing …
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From Collaboration to Knowledge: Planning for Remedial Action in the Great LAkes
The goal of planning is to use knowledge to determine action. Planning theory has focused specifically on how the process of achieving this occurs. Two dominant theories prevail: rational comprehensive and communicative planning theory. The former relies heavily on the scientific method as a model …
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Understanding the context of informality: urban planning under different land tenure systems in Mzuzu city, Malawi
… of urban informal settlements. Despite planning attempts and claims to directly address and contain informal settlements, informality nonetheless continues to be the dominant form of shelter. However, there is insufficient understanding of how and why informality persists in the African …