Planning in/for/with the Public
Strohmayer, Ulf
Strohmayer, Ulf
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2016-03-18
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Ulf Strohmayer (2016) 'Planning in/for/with the Public'. Urban Planning, 1 (1):55-58.
Abstract
Urban planning in general, and discursively motivated practices attaching to urban form in particular, are beholden in many ways to notions of a ‘public’. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that urban planners continue to grapple with the idea and reality of the ‘public’ in many relevant contexts. It is also one of those terms that are customarily invoked when urban planning makes headlines in different media: from concerns over ‘public’ access to public consultation processes, from normative practices embedded in a ‘public sphere’ to public relations, from ‘public sector’ involvement through ‘public’ policy to the everyday concerns of ‘public’ housing and ‘public’ transport—the notion of something ‘public’ marks a dimension we as planning practitioners or theoreticians (or both) ignore at our individual and collective peril. This brief intervention aims to illuminate the outer contours of this ‘grappling’ in an attempt to open up future productive conversations in the pages of Urban Planning. There are at least three aspects of ‘the public’ that concern us here.
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Cogitatio Press
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10.17645/up.v1i1.559
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland