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Consensus Planning: The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development

By Johan Woltjer Copyright 2000

    This title was published in 2000:  This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called "consensus planning". The discussion takes place in the Netherlands, where consensus-based decision-making is part of the national heritage. The book explores recent Dutch infrastructure development experiences and concludes that communicative planning theory does not offer uniform relevance for the challenges that planning practitioners face. Building on these experiences, it proposes the concept of consensus planning as valuable in a complementary, normalized, and contingent way. Consensus planning, in other words, has diverse practical appearances and sometimes may not exist or be desirable.

    1: Introduction; 2: Theoretical Underpinnings; 3: Some Relevant Issues for Consensus Planning; 4: The Setting: Infrastructure Development in The Netherlands; 5: Evaluating Consensus Planning: An Overall Picture of Dutch Initiatives; 6: Evaluating Consensus Planning: An Assessment Based on Complexity; 7: Evaluating Consensus Planning: The Position of Residents in Two Cases; 8: Evaluating Consensus Planning: Some Critical Reflections; 9: The Essence of Consensus Planning

    Biography

    Johan Woltjer