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- Bradley, Karin, 1975-, et al.
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Hur gör vi samhällsplaneringen meningsfull igen?
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In: Plan: tidskrift för samhällsplanering. - Stockholm : Föreningen för samhällsplanering. - 0032-0560. ; :1
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Samhällsplaneringen är på många sätt en produkt av modernismen och intimt förknippad med välfärdsstaten och folkhemsbygget. Därmed också sagt att den är i kris. Förutsättningarna för planering har förändrats så radikalt under de senaste decennierna att det inte längre går att hålla fast vid gamla mål och medel. Planeringen ändras visserligen i praxis men vi som forskar i ämnet och har i uppdrag att utbilda nästa generation planerare måste också försöka dra upp riktlinjer för en fungerande och angelägen samhällsplanering för i morgon. I denna artikel efterlyser vi en planerare som – till skillnad från gängse praxis – är både proaktiv och inriktad på att värna de eller det marginaliserade.
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- Bradley, Karin, 1975-, et al.
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Hållbara staden fångad i ett postpolitiskt vakuum
- 2008
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In: Arkitekten. - 0903-2347. ; :12
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Den "täta staden" framställs som enda vägen mot framtiden. Men den vägen är varken så okontroversiell eller opolitisk som det verkar, skriver Karin Bradley, Karolina Isaksson och Lars Orrskog vid KTH.
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- Bradley, Karin, 1975-
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Just Environments : Politicising Sustainable Urban Development
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- European cities are becoming increasingly multicultural and diverse in terms of lifestyles and socioeconomic conditions. However, in planning for sustainable urban development, implications of this increased diversity and possibly conflicting perspectives are seldom considered. The aim of this thesis is to explore dimensions of justice and politics in sustainable urban development by studying inclusionary/exclusionary effects of discursive power of official strategies for eco-friendly living on the one hand and everyday lifestyles on the other, in ethnically and socially diverse areas. Two case studies have been conducted, one in a city district of Stockholm, Sweden, and one in an area of Sheffield, England. The empirical material consists of interviews with residents, interviews with planners and officials and an analysis of strategic planning documents. The case study in Stockholm illustrated the prevalence of a dominant discourse among residents in which Swedishness is connected with environmental responsibility in the form of tidiness, recycling and familiarity with nature. In Sheffield there are more competing and parallel environmental discourses. The mainstream British environmental discourse and sustainability strategies are being criticised from Muslim as well as green radical perspectives. The mainstream discourse is criticised for being tokenistic in its focus on gardening, tidiness, recycling and eco-consumption, and hence ignoring deeper unsustainable societal structures. This can be interpreted as a postpolitical condition, in which there is a consensus around “what needs to be done,” such as more recycling, but in which difficult societal problems and conflicting perspectives on these are not highlighted. In the thesis it is argued that the strategies for urban sustainability are underpinned by Swedish/British middle-class norms, entailing processes of (self-)disciplining and normalisation of the Other into well-behaving citizens. It is argued that an appreciation of the multiple and others’ ways of saving natural resources would make the sustainability strategies more attuned to social and cultural diversity as well as more environmentally progressive. Finally, the importance of asserting the political in sustainability strategies is stressed, highlighting the organisation of society and possible alternative socioenvironmental futures.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978-
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Heritage in Authority-Making : Appropriating Interventions inThree Socio-Political Contexts
- 2012
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The perpetual evolution of the value of heritage in urban development is producing newsocio-spatial realities, shaped by different relationships of power at multiple scales.Heritage has always played an important role in the construction of individual andgroup identities, but is now increasingly seen as a capital for the making of cityidentity. Although professional heritage practices have attempted to embrace a similaror parallel vision, they are likely to overlook how interventions in heritage challengeidentity, meaning and sense of place. This thesis employs methods of discursiveanalysis to investigate the evolution and the appropriation of heritage in three sociopoliticalcontexts: Botswana, a post-colonial society; Palestine, an occupied society;and Sweden, a developed Western society. It also uncovers the ways authority is put towork through the discursive field of heritage in historic environments.Heritage in Palestine under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, British Mandate, and theIsraeli Occupation has been engulfed by both armed and discursive struggles overhistory, identity, and superiority. Narratives of the ‘Holy Land’ in addition to thepressures of the occupation forces and international interventions have shaped currentheritage practices in the Historic City of Nablus. In Botswana, Western planning ideashave been promoted in both the colonial and post-colonial eras, with little attention tolocal culture. The socio-spatial realities this produces have divorced the Batswana fromthe familiar and played an authoritarian role in defining valuable heritage in thedevelopment of Shoshong village and Sowa town. Heritage in the town of Ystad,Sweden, has since the late nineteenth century been regulated and legitimized through aconsistent inscription of a medieval identity on the town landscape, overlooking socialand spatial consequences.These findings are presented in four papers that each addresses a specific aspect ofheritage in urban development. An introductory monograph links the articles,developing theoretical analyses on how heritage-authority relations. This discussiongoes beyond direct practices of authority in management of physical heritage. Instead,it uncovers how heritage is utilised to gain and reinforce authority over identity politicsin historic environments. It also sheds light on how discursive struggles over meaningin the three cases are influenced by a ‘universalized heritage discourse’. In thisdiscourse, heritage is perceived as physical things representing a specific version of thepast, framed by European values and controlled by professional expertise andconventional knowledge. This discourse is rooted in the ‘authorized heritage discourse’that emerged in Europe in the nineteenth century and disseminated globally throughinternational treaties on heritage. Situating site-specific interventions in their social,cultural, and political contexts would allow for productive dissonance, rather thannarrow mediations of competing views. The virtue of working with heritage in the faceof authority at different spatial scales is stressed as one way to build sufficient capacityin heritage practices, capacity that would allow individuals and social groups to freelynegotiate their identity against any intervention in their spaces of heritage.
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- Mng'ong'o, Othmar Simtali, 1953-
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A Browning process : The case of Dar es Salaam city
- 2005
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The study is about how green spaces and structures of Dar es Salaam city, quantitatively and qualitatively, are browning out. It also tries to explore the different reasons behind the browning tendency, and what it means to the function of the city and to the daily form of life of the inhabitants. Finally there is a discussion about how to counteract the tendency by involving the inhabitants in planning procedures following the communicative approach to planning. The main investigations have been a) time series mapping of the browning process at city, settlement, block and plot levels; and b) interviews with inhabitants individually and as groups in two settlements. The result is that the quantity of green spaces and structures is decreasing fast in all levels. It is also found that, concerning the browning tendency, the development in formal and informal areas is the same. The quality of the remaining green spaces and structures is also decaying. Among other things, imported plant species, in all levels, replace the indigenous ones. They often cause disturbance and extinctions to local flora and fauna. All in all, the browning tendency is a threat to the ecological functioning of the green as a system, infrastructural and health aspects on the city. It is also a threat to typical daily lifestyles in the city. Throughout, low-density with low-rise detached houses characterize the city, which expands continuously both outward and inward. So it is a sprawled city. In most of the remaining green spaces of this sprawled structure vegetables and other food plants are grown for the benefit of the urban poor, now threatened. The inhabitants in the studied blocks seem to take responsibility of supplying, using and caring their green plants and spaces. They also often co-operate in solving ad-hoc environmental problems in their living environments. But in their plots and around them they nevertheless keep on building more and more on a limited plot space, mostly for economic reasons. Another room is more worth economically than some vegetables or the shade of a tree. Finally it seems that local community, if well empowered, have potentials in managing their own living environment. The study concludes that in a city whose largest proportion of population is poor and unemployed, urban sprawl could offer, at the moment, an appropriate form. This conclusion challenges how the concept of the sustainable city has been elaborated and evolved in western countries.
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- Orrskog, Lars, et al.
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Vitalizing Planning for a Neo-Welfare State : A Suggestion Based on Swedish Experiences
- 2006
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In: International Planning Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1356-3475 .- 1469-9265. ; 11:2, s. 125-136
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Planning in Sweden is intimately connected with the welfare state, whose ethos andmethods are in crisis. The aim of this article is a) to bring in and accommodate new postmoderntheories to the planning context in Sweden and b) to examine how the planning profession inSweden in line with these theories can adapt to the radical societal and theoretical changes ofthe last decades. It is argued that the current planning role needs to be complemented with a new“proactive” kind of planning, ensuring that the voices and needs of vulnerable groups are heard.
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- Wallgren, Christine
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Food in the Future : energy and transport in the food system
- 2008
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis explores possible future forms of a sustainable food supply system from an energy aspect. Particular attention is devoted to local food supply as a means to reduce energy use for transport. The thesis consists of a covering essay and three studies: one futures study of the entire food supply system and two case studies of local farming. The results from the three studies had somewhat different characters, but provided suggestions on how the food system could be more energy-efficient. The futures study, which was on a more comprehensive level than the two case studies, included a full account of energy use for the food supply system in Sweden for the year 2000 and an exploration of future sustainable energy use in the shape of an image of the future. The two case studies provided indications on the potential for reduction in energy use for transport through local food supply in the future. The futures study explored the possibilities of reducing the energy use for food to a level that would be sustainable with regard to energy use. This meant generating an image of the future where energy use for eating was 60% lower in 2050 than in 2000. Sweden was used as the case and all data regarding energy use were for Swedish conditions. The existing possibilities to reduce energy used in the food supply system for producing, transporting, storing, cooking and eating food were explored and described in terms of a number of distinct, consecutively numbered ‘Changes’. These changes were presented in both a quantitative and qualitative way but should not be regarded as forecasts. Instead, they provide an illustration of the kinds of changes needed in order to achieve sustainable energy use in the food system. The outcome from the two case studies was that energy use for local food distribution was not obviously lower than that for conventional food transport. This may be surprising to many, since it is generally argued in the public debate that local food supply is a powerful means to reduce energy use in the food system. From an energy point of view, it could be more relevant to use a parameter based on the energy use per quantity of food instead of transport distance. An appropriate approach would therefore be energy-efficient food supply instead of local food supply. This would allow concerned consumers to make appropriate choices when purchasing food.
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