communicative planning

Communicative Planning

Hello again,

The article given this week to us for the reading was "The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and Its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation" From Healey 1996

This article was quite insightful into the way that planners viewed things such as planning spatial. This was at first a term that I was not familiar with me so after a bit of research I discovered that it related to the ways that planner’s distributed people and activities in spaces of various scales. Under this thing such as land use, urban, regional, transport and environmental planning. This topic then become quite interesting to me and I was interested in the ways that planners view such things. The text outlined the traditional way of viewing spatial planning and defined it broadly as achieving ‘public interest goals’. But later on in the 20^th century it was this idea that was transformed to incorporate the environment and find a zero sum solution meaning a way in which they can plan and not affect the environment.

The conclusion of the text outlined a communicative approach to spatial planning had listed 5  key elements these being

1. Creating Arenas for discussion

2. Deciding upon the scope and style of the discussion 3. Sorting the arguments 4.Creating a new discourse 5. Agreement and critique

The text stressed the importance of the communication of the community and the planners in a way that is directly related to each other either through their active involvement or their being accorded respect by those involved. It also stated that the whole process can be help by past engagements or experience of the planners with the community and know how the processes that involve the community take place. Overall the text told that future planners will need to be ready for these communities to be involved with projects and the implications of communication between the two parties so that a desirable outcome can be reached.