The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes

Working from accounts of practitioners in urban and rural settings, North and South, this text shows how skillful deliberative practices can facilitate practical and timely participatory planning processes. In so doing, it provides a window onto the wider world of democratic governance, participation and practical decision making. Integrating interpretation and theoretical insight with diverse accounts of practice, the work draws on political science, law, philosophy, literature and planning to explore the challenges and possibilities of deliberative practice.