Planners between the chairs

Othengrafen, Frank; Levin-Keitel, Meike

Planners between the chairs

dc.contributor.author	Othengrafen, Frank
dc.contributor.author	Levin-Keitel, Meike
dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-17T14:09:08Z
dc.date.available	2020-01-17T14:09:08Z
dc.date.issued	2019-12-27
dc.description.abstract	Even though the turn to practice is widely accepted in the field of urban planning, the practices of planners are empirically largely unexplored. Looking at the daily routines and practices of urban planners thus allows a deeper insight into what planning is, and how planning practices are related to innovation and transformation. To do so, we start from the assumption that behaviour is a constellation of practices, including certain activities, a set of choices and actions, patterns of behaviour or forms of interaction that is organised in a certain space or context by common understandings and rules. By conducting an online survey among planners in medium-sized German cities, we first identified a wide range of planning practices and activities in general. In a second step, we conducted a statistical cluster analysis resulting in six types of planners: (1) the ‘local-specific analysts,’ (2) the ‘experienced generalists,’ (3) the ‘reactive pragmatists,’ (4) the ‘project-oriented planners,’ (5) the ‘compensatory moderators,’ and (6) the ‘innovative designers.’ Each cluster has specific practices and activities, linked to characteristic value-sets, role interpretations and self-perceptions that might help explain the differences with regard to innovation and transformation. From the identified six groups or clusters of planners, only two clusters more or less consequently aim at innovation, experimentation and new approaches. One cluster is dedicated to collaborative practices whereas traditional practices predominate in three clusters at least, mainly because of legal requirements. This is the result of an increasing ‘formalisation’ of land-use planning, making planners focus on technical and formal practices, and, at the same time, lead to the reduced ‘attention’ to and implementation of conceptual approaches or ‘necessary’ transformative practices, including proactive approaches and strategic coordination with regard to sustainable urban development, but also comprising experiments, real labs or social innovations.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2003/38528
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-20447
dc.language.iso	en	de
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Urban planning;Vol 4, No 4 (2019)
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject	Cluster analysis	en
dc.subject	Planning practice	en
dc.subject	Role of planners	en
dc.subject	Transformative practices	en
dc.subject	Urban planning	en
dc.subject.ddc	710
dc.subject.rswk	Stadtplanung	de
dc.subject.rswk	Stadtplaner	de
dc.subject.rswk	Stadtplanerin	de
dc.subject.rswk	Cluster-Analyse	de
dc.subject.rswk	Transformation	de
dc.subject.rswk	Innovation	de
dc.title	Planners between the chairs	de
dc.title.alternative	How planners (do not) adapt to transformative practice	en
dc.type	Text	de
dc.type.publicationtype	article	de
dcterms.accessRights	open access
eldorado.secondarypublication	true	de
eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitation	Urban planning. Vol 4, 2019, No 4 (2019)	de
eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifier	http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v4i4.2237	de

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