Open AccessPublic Sphere as Democratic Sphere
Author(s) -
Ziba Faeedfar,
Yasin Lotfata
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
issues in social science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2329-521X
DOI - 10.5296/iss.v6i2.14082
Subject(s) - democracy , public sphere , politics , rationality , space (punctuation) , representation (politics) , public space , affect (linguistics) , sociology , public relations , public participation , political science , public administration , epistemology , computer science , law , engineering , architectural engineering , philosophy , communication , operating system
Political public space is more conflicted and stressed. Process of black-balling other actors is dominant here. Other civilian public spaces mean mutual learning and opinion improvement. These two spaces try to affect each other. Civilian public spaces try to affect political public space with political discourses. The only way to determine the willpower of the society is participation. Planning is conducted through this participation which brings democracy concept with. Planning is the participation of the folk in the decision phase. It puts communicative rationality instead of instrumental rationality in decisions to be taken for the community. This newly existing planning concept is based on the principle of consensus creating. All these let the planning turn into a democracy project. Handling the planning in such a concept and bringing together new spatial representation form in transmitting information by regarding spatial changings must be concept of planning of today. This study conducted a brief review on constructing democratic public space.