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An ambiguous attitude of politicians (and of sociologists) towards planning is linked to the “governance” discourse. Planning as key practice in governing is often, for example, veiled by the (redundant) label of “strategic planning”. The plan is a governing instrument in which a systematic analysis supports a political project, and as such it cannot be non “strategic”. In planning, the political project (as a set of actions) is rooted in a systematic analysis of the resources available to implement precise objectives.
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For an up to date assessment of the research developed in these different directions, see Dühr et al. (2010).
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Stead and Nadin, (in Knieling and Othengrafen 2009, 283 f.) propose the following interpretation of “planning culture”: embedded in the interdependence of social, economic, and political values, norms, rules and laws, “positioned between the model of society and the actualities of planning practice, spatial planning becomes a keyfield to observe changes in the “model of society”, for the two authors currently mainly resumable, especially in the European context, as a “model of welfare state”.
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Magnier, A. (2012). Governing through instruments? The challenging revival of spatial planning in European politics. In: Egner, B., Haus, M., Terizakis, G. (eds) Regieren. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19793-7_10
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