ABSTRACT
The current landscape of planning theory is a mixture of theoretical perspectives dominated by post-positivist understandings and heavily orientated towards the communicative or collaborative planning approach. The future of planning theory is being set without, it would seem, a critical engagement with the thrust of communicative and collaborative planning. This book aims to provide such a critique from a number of different perspectives. First, it will seek to engage with the collaborative planning approach in relation to a number of important issues:
• Power. How does planning theory seek to expose and neutralise powerful interests and is it realistic to expect planning to achieve this?
