Zur Komplementarität von Diskurs und Macht in der Planung

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size At present the communicative or discursive model of planning—excluding the scientific-instrumental one—is fundamental for many planners, in Germany as well as the USA. Its capability to map the reality of planning processes and to guide thinking and acting of planners is doubted. Evidence is provided from the experiences of other planning theorists with their practical attempts at cooperation and from observing the planning process of a large real planning project. The observation was that during the whole tedious planning process a large variety of actors try to influence the outcome of the planning process by different kinds of contributions, discoursive as well as power acts. The concept of power is introduced, its underlying logic, its internal calculi (following a strategic rationality) and its instrumental forms in planning are shown. The conclusion is, not to replace one concept with the other, not to include one concept in the other, not to mix both up into a new kind of (real)rationality. It is rather adequate to see them as necessarily separate concepts in inevitably complementary interrelations. The kind of interrelations between both concepts in a complementarity model of planning is shown.