Key questions in urban development and planning

Place-making is an even vaguer and more ambiguous topic that brings into play public communications, territorial justice, sense of place, and the possibility for individual or collective action. A more tempered variant of this view is the "right-sizing doctrine": a deliberate policy for containing urban growth recently adopted in many cities undergoing crisis. Faced with the phenomena of market saturation, overproduction in the construction sector, and the fiscal and financial crises intertwined over the last decade, it seems wise to put a limit on new construction, carefully choosing areas in which to intervene and needs to be met. This variant can be considered reasonable but is not a true alternative concept of urban development. Two common objections tend to question the possible primacy of pragmatic culture in planning and design fields. Jurgen Habermas theory of communicative rationality is an inimitable ideal-type for current urban planning and design practice. However, his founding principles suggest reasonable criteria for evaluating real communicative situations.