Communicative and participatory paradigm in the European territorial policies. A discourse analysis |
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Authors: | ?ukasz Damurski Marcin Oleksy |
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Institution: | 1. Chair of Urban Design &2. Planning and Settlement Processes, Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland;3. Department of Computational Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland |
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Abstract: | Communicative planning has been widely criticized for having little to do with the official legal procedures and for low-quality spatial solutions. It has also been blamed to be an empty concept, referring to an action that in itself has no content. This critique gives ground to the question: what is actually the role of the communicative and participatory paradigm in contemporary territorial policies? In this paper, we adopt discourse analysis methods to study the European documents on spatial planning in their three characteristic strands: smart city, integrated planning and multilevel governance. By extracting eight core principles (governance, sustainability, communication, participation, resilience, innovation, cooperation and coordination), we measure the importance of the communicative and participatory paradigm in the current planning discourse in Europe. We find that despite critique it remains one of the fundamental building-blocks of the European territorial policy. Communicative planning principles are visibly present in all the analysed strands of spatial planning in Europe. |
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Keywords: | Communicative planning participatory planning EU territorial policy discourse analysis |
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