Participatory Planning and Means-Ends Rationality: A Translation ProblemFootnote1

 1. Thanks to Patsy Healey for talking to me about an earlier draft of this paper, and to the three anonymous referees for their helpful comments. The paper develops a point that emerged from my PhD research, for which Jean Hillier and Rick Iedema were the supervisors.

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