The usefulness of normative planning theories in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa

Current normative theories of planning, represented by communicative planning theory (Forester, Healey, Innes and others), the Just City approach (Fainstein) and those concerned with the recognition of diversity and cultural difference (Sandercock), may be of great interest to planners who continue to grapple with the problem of overcoming the extreme forms of inequity, division and social breakdown that persist in the cities of Sub-Saharan Africa.