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Deliberative Democracy and Urban Regeneration: Justification and Evaluation

Queen Mary, University of London

The current orthodoxy of urban regeneration is that it is essential to involve the community in decisions about regeneration programmes. This article argues that the justification for this position is often unclear and explores three different theoretical arguments for deliberative democracy in an urban regeneration context. It concludes that there are fundamental theoretical flaws with arguing for deliberation on the grounds of legitimacy, and that arguments based on the nature of knowledge or the nature of society are more promising. However both of those types of arguments will only justify deliberation in certain circumstances, and it is an empirical question as to whether or not a specific regeneration project meets the necessary criteria. The article concludes by using this purely theoretical discussion to construct nine questions to guide empirical evaluation of attempts to employ deliberative democracy in urban regeneration.

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