The changing discourse of city plans: Rationalities of planning in Perth, 1955-2010

摘要: 1Plans are among the most durable products of planning, and as such offer a revealing window into worlds planners their time. In this paper we set out methodology for viewing those using critical discourse analysis (CDA). This method focuses on four key textual features plans: construal substance, construction agency, generic structure, presentation. Together they enable investigator to go beyond thematic discourses uncover institutional, political ideological role planning during time period in which plans produced. We use interrogate changing rationalities governing Western Australia (WA) since Second World War by analysing major city Perth, covering from 1955 2010. longitudinal suggests that WA mirrors concurrent trends international theory, highlights significance “the plan” an object inquiry n...