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作者

Esin Özdemir Tuna Tasan-Kok

来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.56,Issue4,P.760–777

语言

英文

关键字

citizen disagreement, consensus, Dutch urban planning, post-politics, urban planners

作者单位

Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands;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

摘要

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.