Mobility as Stress Regulation: A Challenge to Dialogue in Planning?

There is a tension between the proximity required by dialogical planning and decision making and the physical distance regulation that is facilitated by great personal mobility. The tension arises from the stress experienced in the interaction, discussion and negotiation with people who are egotistical or who act on the basis of different interests or value sets on the one hand, and the use of mobility and distance adjustment as means of stress regulation on the other.