Roles of Planners in a Communicative Survey - a case of distant refugees from eastern Japan

Abstract

A concept of a communicative survey is reexamined with the works by Habermas and planning theorists in 1980’s and 90’s. Author focuses on roles of planners in the survey process, and states their role is to derive practitioners’ unintended consequences, to have a reflective dialogue based on it, and to lead to a next step of community building. A case of distant refugees is attached to verify it.