Jean Hillier

Strategic Planning as Strategic Navigation

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Keywords

  • In this article
  • spatial planning is represented as an issue of strategically navigated becoming. Planning evolves
  • functions and adapts
  • attempts to embrace a future that is not determined by the continuity of the present
  • nor by the path-dependent repetition of the past. It is concerned with the future transformation of place
  • incorporating a combination of social
  • environmental
  • economic and political values about society. The author argues that planning practice is concerned with trajectories rather than specified end-points
  • being a field of experimentation
  • where processes are based on communication and involvement of actors rather than the top-down imposition of goals and policies. In regarding spatial planning as an experimental practice working with doubt and uncertainty
  • engaged with adaptation and creation rather than scientistic proof-discovery
  • the author suggests a definition of spatial planning as strategic navigation along the lines of the investigation of â€
  • œ
  • virtualitiesâ€
  • 
  • unseen in the present
  • the speculation about what may yet happen
  • the inquiry into what at a given time and place we might think or do and how this might influence socially and environmentally just spatial form

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