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Culture and Planning for Change and Continuity in Botswana

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This paper examines how culture might be integrated in planning by critically rethinking the role of planners and knowledge in the planning systems of postcolonial contexts. The empirical study of cultural conception and utilization in Botswana suggests a shift from planning for culture to cultural institutionalization, where culture, rather than as an object, becomes integral to development planning decisions. The traditional division between bottom–up and top–down approaches is challenged, so as to allow a wider range of actors and views to interact during the entire planning process.

Source: Journal of Planning Education and Research

DOI: 10.1177/0739456x11435511

Author: Feras Hammami

Institution: KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Local Governance and Planning

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

OpenAlex ID: W2020908307

FWCI: 5.984

Cites: 26

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10