ABSTRACT
This book argues that democratic planning is both desirable and achievable. It seeks to develop a more complete framework for considering planning as an aspect of democratic governance, in parallel with conceiving of democracy in useful ways. The previous chapter contended that to understand the difficulties of urban planning, one must first understand it as an attempt to resolve the inherent tensions of democracy, alongside technical and substantive challenges. This chapter examines communicative planning and its grounding in the work of Habermas, arguing that a modified communicative planning offers ways for planning to address democratic antinomy more fully and practically.
