ABSTRACT
This final chapter seeks to augment and operationalise aspects of communicative planning at the system-wide level. In parallel, Victorian planning’s attempts to deal with emergent challenges are used to illustrate concepts of democratic antinomy and media. The intention is to inform a practical view of communicative planning at the system level. Classical communicative planning has championed many fundamental tenets central to emphasising planning’s emancipatory potential. However, its focus on ideal cases and difficulties in realisation have restricted its application and meaning in practice. A more practical communicative planning, as propounded here, might assist urban planning to play a fuller role in democratic governance, widening its emancipatory function. Recognising planning within liberal democratic governance, and its corresponding dilemmas, is a key starting point to combat the negative effects of media upon a planning apparatus’s potential for democratic knowing and steering.
