Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement: The case of Dutch urban planning

Esin Özdemir-Ulutaş and Tuna Tasan-Kok
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Esin Özdemir-Ulutaş: Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Tuna Tasan-Kok: Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; and Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Urban Studies, 2019, vol. 56, issue 4, 741-759

Abstract: Citizen disagreement on urban policies and planning decisions is both ubiquitous and fundamental to democracy. Post-political debates debunk the ‘consensus approach’, which is grounded in Habermasian communication theory, for circumventing disagreement. This article presents a counter argument. Our analysis of the highly institutionalised and consensus-oriented Dutch planning framework shows that this system does not necessarily prevent effective voicing of disagreement. The empirical material demonstrates that consensus is not a pre-defined and static outcome but a dynamic and sensitive process in which urban planning is an instrument. We conclude that planners could facilitate consensus through accommodative roles that address disagreement by taking an adaptive, proactive and more human stance.

Keywords: citizen disagreement; consensus; Dutch urban planning; post-politics; urban planners; 公民异è§; 共识; è ·å…°åŸŽå¸‚è§„åˆ’; å Žæ”¿æ²»; 城市规划者 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098017726738

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