Abstract
Interest in Communicative Planning has dramatically increased and has attracted considerable popularity from both theorists and researchers in the field of urban planning from the 1990s onwards. Habermas's theory of communicative action and his concept of communicative nationality has proved highly influential to proponents of Communicative Planning and it has frequently been applied to the urban planning context. However, Communicative Planning has received considerable criticism from the late 1990s onwards, as witnessed by the book entitled Planning Futures: New directions for planning theory (Allmendinger & Tewdwr-Jones (eds.), 2002) which assembles various critiques of Communicative Planning. Given such an ongoing amount of attention and criticism, this paper critically examines Communicative Planning, and its fundamental concept of communicative rationality in particular, in terms of TEAM linguistic theory, for the progress of studies in urban planning.
