Abstract
ABSTRACT This article engages with two published case studies describing participation in planning, a much-discussed aspect of spatial planning. After a brief review of the arguments advanced in the articles, the case studies are reinterpreted using the theory of social autopoiesis as advanced by Niklas Luhmann, in particular, one concept from the theory – interaction systems. The re-analysis yields two results: it illustrates the added contribution that the theory can make to understand public participation in spatial planning, but also highlights particular issues in relation to participatory planning and its use in spatial planning.
Highlights
After a brief review of the arguments advanced in the articles, the case studies are reinterpreted using the theory of social autopoiesis as advanced by Niklas Luhmann, in particular, one concept from the theory – interaction systems
This article engages with the systems theory of social autopoiesis advanced by Niklas Luhmann and aims to illustrate how and what it adds to current planning thought, focusing on public participation, a much-discussed aspect of spatial planning
The argument made here is that Luhmann’s theory of social autopoiesis directs attention to a level of concern in parallel to the level of abstraction in which it exists in the social sciences
Summary
This article engages with the systems theory of social autopoiesis advanced by Niklas Luhmann and aims to illustrate how and what it adds to current planning thought, focusing on public participation, a much-discussed aspect of spatial planning. In introducing the concept and arguing for what it might bring to planning, a secondary case study based approach is adopted. The use of published secondary case studies as a method is not common (see Chettiparamb 2006, 2018 for other instances of the use of secondary case studies). Its adoption in this instance allows me to highlight the added contribution that autopoiesis can make in understanding a case, since the cases here have already been analysed once. Rather the focus is on what in addition can be said about the cases when analysed from the theory of autopoiesis
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