TY - BOOK
T1 - Bringing Power to Planning Research
T2 - One Researcher`s Praxis Story
AU - Flyvbjerg, Bent
N1 - Reprinted from Journal of Planning Education and Researh, vol. 21, no. 4, Summer 2002, pp. 353-366
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This article provides an answer to what has been called the biggest problem in theorizing and understanding planning, namely the ambivalence about power found among planning researchers, theorists, and students. The author narrates how he came to work with issues of power. He then gives an example of how the methodology he developed for power studies, called "phronetic planning research," may be employed in practice. Phronetic planning research follows the tradition of power studies running from Machiavelli and Nietzsche to Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. It focuses on four value-rational questions: (1) Where are we going with planning? (2) Who gains and who loses, and by which mechanisms of power? (3) Is this development desirable? (4) What should be done? These questions are exemplified for a specific instance of Scandinavian urban planning. The author finds that the questions, and their answers, make a difference to planning in practice. They make planning research matter
AB - This article provides an answer to what has been called the biggest problem in theorizing and understanding planning, namely the ambivalence about power found among planning researchers, theorists, and students. The author narrates how he came to work with issues of power. He then gives an example of how the methodology he developed for power studies, called "phronetic planning research," may be employed in practice. Phronetic planning research follows the tradition of power studies running from Machiavelli and Nietzsche to Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. It focuses on four value-rational questions: (1) Where are we going with planning? (2) Who gains and who loses, and by which mechanisms of power? (3) Is this development desirable? (4) What should be done? These questions are exemplified for a specific instance of Scandinavian urban planning. The author finds that the questions, and their answers, make a difference to planning in practice. They make planning research matter
KW - Narrative
KW - Planning research
KW - Phronesis
KW - Planning theory
KW - Power
M3 - Book
SN - 8790893689
BT - Bringing Power to Planning Research
PB - Aalborg Universitetsforlag
CY - Aalborg University, Department og Development and Planning
ER -