CITIZEN PARTICIPATION THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE ACTION: TOWARDS A NEW FRAMEWORK AND SYNTHESIS

This paper introduces the concepts of communicative action to buttress and complement technical rationality, currently used in the transportation planning process. A real-life case study is presented to demonstrate how communicative action was successfully used in a problem-ridden planning situation. Validity claims as suggested by Habermas in his Theory of Communicative Action are used in this case study. It is concluded that academic institutions as well as planning agencies will have to make a concerted effort to educate and train planners not only to be involved with the engineering of our infrastructure, but also to be equally concerned with coping with the social, economic and political dimensions of planning.

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• Authors:
  • Khisty, C J
  • Leleur, S
• Publication Date: 1997-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 119-137
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 31
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Communication systems; Infrastructure; Public information programs; Public participation; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00738593
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 13 1997 12:00AM