Abstract
Town planning, by Henri Coing From the scientific standpoint, town planning can only be understood once a complete reversal of perspective compared with the common, "natural" and immediate conception has taken place. Town planning has nothing to do with a science of correct urban forms, nothing to do with the technical organisation of consistency between long-range decisions, nothing to do with the uncertain outcome of the vast sociometric game of negociations between the various actors. What is involved is the political management of social relations inside an urban system, where planning is triggered off by contradictions (not problems), and undertaken by entities (not institutions) through the medium of actors defined in respect of the objective positions they hold in the systems of production, of property and of the social organisation (not through the "power" they possess in negociations). The social relations formed in this context do not have their basis in cultural models and behavioural systems, but in a set of objective relations in themselves foreign to the ideological representations of which they are the foundation. [Revue française de science politique XXIII (2), avril 1973, pp. 250-267.]
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