Planning and Power: Towards an Emancipatory Planning Approach

Louis Albrechts
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Louis Albrechts: Department of Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Catholic University of Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 51, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

Environment and Planning C, 2003, vol. 21, issue 6, 905-924

Abstract: Planning is challenged to interrelate four different concepts of rationality: value, instrumental, communicative, and strategic. Working out an emancipatory planning approach needs to focus on conflict and power relations and needs communicative, people-centred, practices. Therefore, the author confronts dimensions in the broader planning process with systems of power. Besides planning literature, the author's experience in practice is used. In this way directions are provided for incorporating an explicit power strategy in planning and for the form it may take.

Date: 2003
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