Going round the Back? Complex Networks and Informal Action in Local Planning Processes

Jean Hillier
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Jean Hillier: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

Environment and Planning A, 2000, vol. 32, issue 1, 33-54

Abstract: In negotiated land-use planning decisions there may be intractable opposition and the use of strength, strategy, and influence outside of formal public participation processes—forms of communicative behaviour neglected by Habermasian theory. I investigate the empirical reality of the importance of networks and lobbying as a form of informal action in influencing planning outcomes through a case study in Western Australia. I map the networks of social relations within which stakeholders act and the links and energy flows between them. I examine stakeholders' utterances and questions of who networks and acts informally; why, when, and how they do so, and with what implications.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1068/a321

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