ترجمه آماده – برنامه ریزی  از  طریق  مباحثه:  تئوری  برنامه ریزی  ارتباطی

This essay is about what planning can be taken to mean in contemporary democratic societies. Its context is the dilemma faced by all those committed to planning as a democratic enterprise aimed at promoting social justice and environmental sustainability. The dilemma is that the technical and administrative machineries advocated and created to pursue these goals are based on a narrow and dominatory scientific rationalism. These machineries have further compromised the development of a democratic attitude and have failed to deliver the goals promoted. So how can we now support a renewal of the enterprise of planning? What must be its forms and principles?During the 1980s and early 1990s, alternative conceptions of planning purposes and practices have been increasingly identified and debated in planning theory. One route to imagining alternatives has focused on substantive issues, moving from material analyses of options for local economies exposed to global capitalism to concerns with culture, consciousness, community, and “placeness.”? Another focus has taken a “process” route, exploring the communicative dimensions of collectively debating and deciding on matters of collective concem.