Planning practice and the post‐modern debate

Abstract

While two distinct and irreconcilable approaches to planning have developed in the 1990s, planning practice has (as usual) moved on undeterred by the debate over New Times. Through a case study of practice, it is argued that planners are adapting the modern project of planning to increasingly post‐modern concerns. Further, the study demonstrates how planners are seeking out marginalized voices and breaking down the critical distance between planner and planned. In doing so they are developing a ‘middle way’ to the nihilistic logic of post‐modernity and the stultifying consensus of the neo‐modernists. This progressive planning is not without its own drawbacks and the paper goes on to explore some of these.

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