Urban planning and good governance

Abstract

This paper locates 'good governance' within tile broader analytic concept of governance, and applied it to the governing of urban land use - that is, to urban planning. It identifies parallel shift in town planning and political science from clear hierarchical models of governing to complex, interactive models in which 'government' is on outcome of continuing activity among a range of participants. This points to the importance for drban planning of constituting locations for interaction and the construction of shared meanings and commitments, a process termed by Healey 'collaborative planning' .