Is a New 'Planning 3.0' Paradigm Emerging? Exploring the Relationship between Digital Technologies and Planning Theory and Practice. (14th March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Potts, Ruth
• Is Part Of: Planning theory & practice. Volume 21:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 272
• Page End: 289
• Publication Date: 2020-03-14
• Subjects: Urban planning -- information and communication technologies -- ICTs -- technological turn -- planning theory -- communicative planning -- planning 3.0 -- smart cities; City planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; 307.1205
• DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2020.1748699
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1464-9357

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In recent decades cities and urban planning have become increasingly digitised, complex and data rich. Despite this, the planning theory literature has largely ignored the role and impact of information and communication technologies in shaping planning's ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies. This article explores empirical studies and three major planning paradigms, to explore the changing role and influence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on planning theory and practice. Based on this, the paper argues that ICTs are driving a shift towards a more interactive, intelligent, self-organising, and interconnected planning paradigm.