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Public Planning Reimagined: Building Capacity and Agency
Author(s) -
Weissenborn Frederik
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2431
Subject(s) - champion , agency (philosophy) , workflow , public administration , public relations , business , management , political science , sociology , economics , law , social science
Recent decades have seen knowledge‐sharing across local‐authority planning departments greatly diminished, with ever‐dwindling numbers of architects employed in them. Countering these trends, non‐profit social enterprise Public Practice places its associates in public bodies to champion innovation and embed research in the planning workflow. Its Research and Communications Manager Frederik Weissenborn describes how it functions.