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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-
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Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. Drawing on cultural semiotics and the concepts of lifeworld and system, the study highlights the social side of these space-forming forces. Based on a long-term fieldwork (participant observation) in Ligovo/Uritsk, a high-rise residential district developed around 1970 and situated on the outskirts of Sankt-Peterburg (St Petersburg), the empirical material concerns processes of urban identity, spatial representations and local politics. The study explicates three codes used to form the image of the city that all relate to its pre-Revolutionary history, two textual strategies of juxtaposition in creating the genius loci of a place, and a discussion of what I call Soviet "stiff landscape" in relation to Soviet mental and ordinary maps of the urban landscape. Moreover, the study shows that the newly implemented self-governing municipalities have not realised their potential as political actors in forming local space, which raises questions on the democratisation of urban space. Finally, the study argues that the model that guides the research is a tool that facilitates the application of the world-view of time-geography and the epistemology of the landscape of courses in concrete research. The study ends with an attempt to generalise spatial change in four types.
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- Lundén, Thomas, et al.
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A hundred years later. Streetcars are still rattling in Baltic cities
- 2012
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Ingår i: Baltic Worlds. - 2000-2955 .- 2001-7308. ; 5:3-4, s. 37-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A young geographer by the name of Sten DeGeer mapped the cities around the Baltic Sea in an article published in 1912. As an attempt to capture the urban structure of Baltic region cities, his paper is unique. In this article, we comment on his meticulous descriptions of these cities, with a century long perspective.
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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Artists and creative city policy : Resistence, the mundane and engagement in Stockholm, Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: City, Culture and Society. - : Elsevier BV. - 1877-9166 .- 1877-9174. ; 8, s. 21-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much of the literature around notions of the ’creative class’ and the ‘creative city’ has placed artists as a central, typical creative group. However, that literature has often placed artists in a conceptual dichotomy - either they are seen as uncritical champions of creative city policy (because it boosts their profile and markets) or they are placed in radical opposition to it. This paper explores the attitudes of a sample of artists in Stockholm, Sweden to open this dichotomy up to a more nuanced critique. The analysis considers the diversity of views, attitudes and perceptions of these artists towards creative city policy. While opposition and resistance to the application of creative city policy can certainly be found, the paper seeks to move beyond this to examine how the lack of accord between creative producers and policy-makers can be the outcome of more mundane, everyday practices. In addition, artists join together in specific projects and loose, ephemeral networks to address the issues surrounding the implementation of creative city policy in ways which oppose it but also seek alternatives through engaging planners and the public. Overall the paper calls for an understanding of artists which goes beyond the enthusiast/opponent dichotomy towards developing an understanding of the diverse range of artist responses and engagement with creative city policy.
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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Artists as planners? Identifying five conceptual spaces for interactive urban development
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319532158 - 9783319532172 ; , s. 299-314
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While artists are often seen as key actors in contemporary urban development, particularly linked with the increased use of culture and creativity in urban development policy, to date they have mainly been considered in only a few limited roles. This chapter explores how artists are engaging with policy-makers and planners in attempts to produce ‘new conceptual spaces’ (Gibson and Klocker 2005) in which urban policy and planning practice becomes a form of knowledge and policy co-production. The chapter explores the dynamics of this interaction to understand its different forms, with a particular focus on how artists inform or affect urban planning imagination. Through the analysis of the state of the art in this field and of a number of projects where artists, policy-makers and planners have interacted in urban development projects we identify and discuss five types of new conceptual spaces for artist-planning interactions. Three of these consider interactions initiated by the formal urban governance structures, whereas two are artist initiated. Taken together these five types represent empirically based alternatives to neo-liberalizing agendas as to how art and artists may realize a more varied role in co-creating the urban future.
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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Conceptual export and theory mobilities : exploring the reception and development of the “creative city thesis” in the post-socialist urban realm
- 2016
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Ingår i: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 57:4-5, s. 588-606
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the limited contribution of scholarship from within/on the post-socialist urban arena to global urban studies, a phenomenon attributed to the influence of a hegemonic Anglo-American academic complex. We seek to present a more nuanced account by considering scholarship on the “creative city” in a post-socialist context. A numerical analysis of English language publications confirms the lack of impact of scholarship from/on post-socialist areas, though we do identify literature which may be “theory exporting” and emphasize the temporal dimension of the development of scholarship. We then consider the interaction of three global mobilities to present a more nuanced account of this pattern – the “creative city” thesis as globally mobile urban policy, the neoliberalization of universities as a globally mobile restructuring of the context in which these inequalities in knowledge-production are produced, and urban studies theorizing itself as a set of globally mobile concepts and practices. We therefore explore the dynamic interaction of a particular urban phenomenon (“creative city” policy) with academic knowledge production. Adopting this perspective allows us to emphasize other factors such as path dependencies within post-socialist areas and to give due emphasis to agency within the region and how these interact with global processes of neoliberalizing academia.
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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Culture and creativity in actually existing urban policy
- 2011
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the last decade culture and creativity have become widely adopted as important aspects of urban development strategies. Cities try to make use of their cultural capital in the highly competitive urban system of late capitalism, in order to make themselves attractive for capital investment, skilled labour, tourists and media attention. There is a great deal of debate of these issues and the poster account for the authours' research and projects on these these issues.
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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-
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Exploring the role of place-based knowledge : Insights from local governance practices
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report focuses on the role of local knowledge and on place-based knowledge in local governance practices. In order to understand place-based development, the role of place-based knowledge plays an important part. The concept of place-based development is moreover underpinned by a growing discussion in policy research regarding the importance to widen the knowledge base for policy interventions, especially concerning place-based development strategies.The present report is an empirical analyses of a number of key case studies in the RELOCAL project. Using a comparative perspective, the report analyses a) the forms, expressions and way ofmobilizing local and place-based knowledge; b) the learning loops involved and c) and discusses the flexibility and adaptability of the actions in relation to what role local and place-based knowledge has.
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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-
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Fem år med Geografiska Notiser
- 2012
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Ingår i: Geografiska Notiser. - Lund : Geografiska notiser. - 0016-724X. ; 70:1, s. 3-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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