%0 Journal Article
%T Rationality and Power in Land Use Planning:  A Conceptual View of the Relationship
%A Bernard Adjei-Poku
%J Journal of Planning Literature
%@ 1552-6593
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0885412217723616
%X The realities of power influences in rational decisions in planning became topical following Flyvbjerg¡¯s work in 1998. Yet the characterization of the relationship has remained in Flyvbjerg¡¯s basic notion of there being ¡°stable power relations.¡± In this review, I argue that the nature of the relations may be stable outwardly, but inherently, it may appear more competitive, compromising, confined, or complementary; and that complementary relations between rationality and power are to be preferred. In an attempt to inform planning practice, I propose a conceptual framework for understanding the dynamic relationship between power and rationality and how it can contribute to theoretical development based on Hytonen¡¯s ¡°localization¡± approach
%K rationality
%K power
%K land use
%K planning
%K theory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0885412217723616