In negotiated land-use planning decisions there may be intractableopposition 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...

In this paper we seek to present a challenge to the normative prescriptive role of strategic urban planning practice. In effect, we challenge what has traditionally been regarded as the essence of strategic or ‘forward’ planning: the plan as a statement of what the city <i>ought</i> to become....

Inspired by Deleuze and Foucault, I develop a cartographic methodology of tracing as a new analytical frame with greater insight for spatial planning practice. Working with Foucauldian genealogy and Deleuzean pragmatics, investigation of materialities, in addition to expressivities, facilitates...