AbstractIn
this working paper we discuss current attempts to engage communities
in planning policy formulation in the UK. In particular we focus on the
preparation of Community Strategies (CS) in England to inform local public
policy and the wider proposals recently published by the UK government
to move towards enhanced community engagement in planning (DTLR, 2001).
We discuss how such strategies could be operationalised with a conceptual
framework developed following ideas derived from ANT (cf. Murdoch, 1997,
1998; Selman, 2000; Parker & Wragg, 1999; Callon, 1986, 1998) and the
‘capitals’ literature (Lin, 2002; Fine, 2001; Selman, 2000; Putnam, 1993).
We see this as an expression of neo-pragmatic planning theory, (Hoch, 1996;
Stein & Harper, 2000) to develop a form of ‘pre-plan mapping’.
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