Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-323) and index.

Legitimizing communicative planning -- The logic of critical communicative planning : transaction cost alteration -- Activist modes of planning: a systematic overview -- Activist communicative planning : hybrids of dialogue and strategy -- Neo-liberal policies in urban planning -- Conflicting values of communicative planning theory and new public management -- A strategy for examining whether communicative planning is serving neo-liberalism -- Responsibility for the end-use of theory -- Responsibility for inclusive deliberation in planning : struggling with deep difference -- Responsible decisions in teaching and academic life.