ABSTRACT
We should not forget the wider context in which planning practice sits, an issue to which I return later. At this point I refer to the contextual change from government to governance, as described by Bang and Dyrberg (2000) and the implications for policy-making which they emphasise. Moot for my discussion of planning practice is the tendency that politics cannot be confined within specific settings, but should be regarded as a network of both formal and informal components. ‘Political domination is not only an issue of class power or state coercion, but also of exclusions from elite-governed networks’ (Bang and Dyrberg, 2000: 150).
