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The rationalist view does not necessarily presume the dominance of the public decision maker. Other social or economic components can play guiding roles regarding urban development. The actual processes would, therefore, reflect the power relationships in an economic system, the cogent norms and values in a consolidated social system or the emancipatory aspirations of an insurgent movement. However alternative these views might seem, the logical mechanism is always the same: a causal relationship between structural factors and a series of social and spatial consequences. Consequently, the effective space of decision, learning and action is reduced for individual actors.
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Palermo, P.C., Ponzini, D. (2010). The Social Rootedness of Urban Planning. In: Spatial Planning and Urban Development. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8870-3_9
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