Why governance will make urban design and planning better: Dealing with the communicative turn in urban planning and design

NUL - New Urban Languages Conference Proceedings: Re-imaging the City after the Knowledge Based Turn, Milan, Italy, 19-21 June 2013 - Designing and planning cities are profoundly political activities. There are no purely value-free or ‘technical’ solutions to urban problems: all decisions in urban development are political decisions insofar they...