Discourse Analysis and City Plans
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Vol. 10 (3) , 195-200
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x9101000306
Abstract
The use of discourse theory as a tool for critical analysis has been ex plored by several planning theorists. Two understandings of discourse can be identified in planning literature: the understanding derived from Ha bermas's critical theory which has been adapted for planners by John Forester, and the understanding based on Foucault's work which has been employed by Christine Boyer. Brief summaries of these two tradi tions are followed by a reading of planners' own major discourse — the city plan — in order to identify some of its enduring discursive traits. The significance of these traits is then discussed in terms of some of the key tenets of current postmodern theory.Keywords
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