{"id":864,"date":"2026-01-13T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/?p=864"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:59:31","slug":"new-paper-the-digital-turn-in-planning-and-the-production-of-good-enough-planning-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"New paper: The digital turn in planning and the production of \u2018good enough\u2019 planning systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project has a new paper published online first in <em>European Planning Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kayanan, C., Mutter, S., Davret, J. and Kitchin, R. (2025, online first) The digital turn in planning and the production of \u2018good enough\u2019 planning systems. <em>European Planning Studies<\/em>. doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09654313.2025.2599869\">10.1080\/09654313.2025.2599869<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An open access, post-print version is available <a href=\"https:\/\/mural.maynoothuniversity.ie\/id\/eprint\/20969\/\">on MURAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, as well as a number of technical, regulatory and sociocultural data frictions. This context has led to a sub-optimizing approach to digitalization. In this paper, we examine the digital mediation of planning through an in-depth case study of a multiscale planning development and control data ecosystem in Ireland. We detail the incrementalist nature of the digital turn in planning and how this institutionalizes a \u2018good enough\u2019 digitalized planning system; that is, a system that is functional and performs essential tasks, but not necessarily in an optimal manner and which is always open to potential improvements. We develop a conceptual basis for assessing \u2018good enough\u2019 and<br \/>\nthrough its application contend that \u2018good enough\u2019 planning is a sufficient and reasonable state of affairs given the substantive challenges of creating and maintaining a complex data<br \/>\necosystem and that there are incremental limits to achieving \u2018better planning\u2019. As such, any technological solutionist claims promising to radically reconfigure and fix planning\u2019s operation shortcomings, such as the introduction of artificial intelligence tools, require careful assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project has a new paper published online first in European Planning Studies. Kayanan, C., Mutter, S., Davret, J. and Kitchin, R. (2025, online first) The digital turn in planning and the production of \u2018good enough\u2019 planning systems. European Planning Studies. doi: 10.1080\/09654313.2025.2599869 An open access, post-print version is available on MURAL Abstract The digitalization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/?p=864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New paper: The digital turn in planning and the production of \u2018good enough\u2019 planning systems<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,36,42,43,41,12],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data-ecosystem","tag-data-frictions","tag-digital-turn","tag-digitalization","tag-ireland","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}