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- Aguiar Borges, Luciane, et al.
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White Paper on Nordic Sustainable Cities
- 2017
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Reports (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Rapid urbanisation is one of today’s biggest global challenges. Nordic Sustainable Cities is a flagship project under the Nordic Prime Ministers’ initiative Nordic Solutions to Global Challenges that seeks to shed light on this challenge from a Nordic perspective.The White Paper on Nordic Sustainable Cities develops a narrative to describe the “Nordic Sustainable City”. It forms a basis for the knowledge sharing effort that will be carried out by Nordic Innovation, Nordregio’s sister institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2018. This work aims to export Nordic stories as a means of branding the Nordic Region and contributing to global efforts towards urban sustainability.
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- Andersson, Catrin, et al.
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En särskild typ av megaprojekt
- 2021
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In: Megaprojektet Nya Karolinska Solna. - Stockholm : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170613494 - 9789170618499 ; , s. 26-51
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- Borges, Luciane Aguar, et al.
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What Makes a Sustainable City?
- 2018
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Reports (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Find inspirationin the Nordic cities. This booklet showcases the Nordic Sustainable Cities – giving you an insight into the shared practices that Nordic cities are using towards sustainable urban futures. The challenges that Nordic cities face – unsustainable resource consumption, pollution, homelessness, segregation, to name a few – are not unique to the region, but found all over the world. The Nordic region and its cities are on a journey towards sustainability, and we invite you to join us. This booklet is based on the White Paper on Nordic Sustainable Cities made by Nordregio. The booklet and the white paper has been made as part of the Nordic Sustainable Cities project. Nordic Sustainable Cities is one of six flagship projects under the Nordic prime ministers’ initiative Nordic Solutions to Global Challenges, which is coordinated by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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- Fält, Lena, 1985-
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Legitimizing a world-class hospital : policy mobility and narratives in megaproject planning
- 2024
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In: Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. - 0435-3684 .- 1468-0467.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Megaprojects are vehicles of change and spatial products of policies from near and far. In this paper, we demonstrate how insights from the policy mobility literature can contribute to a critical analysis of the legitimization of megaprojects. Through a study of the planning of a new ‘”world-class” hospital in Stockholm, we show that ideas, experiences, and practices from abroad played a decisive role in legitimizing this megaproject. Policies mobilized from elsewhere were strategically used to construct, modify, and (re)present a legitimizing narrative centred on the aspiration of excellence and international competitiveness. This narrative emphasized the need to transform both the spatial structure and the organization of the studied welfare institution based on political and value-based rationalities. Initial international references and ideas were adopted in an unstructured and selective manner, but proved enduring throughout the extensive planning process and were eventually consolidated into a coherent concept, effectively excluding alternative development paths. The vague notion of “world-class” functioned as a ‘magic concept’ that strengthened this narrative, rendering the project difficult to criticize. In conclusion, the paper emphasizes the importance of considering the temporal dimension of planning processes alongside the relational geographies of policy-mobility in megaproject analyses.
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- Gustafsson, Sara, Biträdande professor, 1974-, et al.
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Integrating environmental sustainability into strategic spatial planning : the importance of management
- 2019
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In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-0568 .- 1360-0559. ; 62:8, s. 1321-1338
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Strategic spatial planning has been suggested as a means for environmental sustainability. However, there are significant challenges with operationalising and integrating policy-driven strategic spatial planning within the standardised and process-oriented management systems of local authorities. This aspect has motivated discussions on how implementation of strategic spatial planning with a focus on environmental sustainability is conditioned by management systems. The empirical case is local planning and management practices in a local authority in Sweden. Interviews with planners, together with planning and policy documents, make up the empirical material. The analysis proposes that the integration of environmental perspectives into strategic spatial planning processes depends on (i) the overall concerns for environmental issues in local policy, and (ii) how administrative management systems can facilitate transformative practice in planning. In conclusion, this article illustrates how environmental sustainability in strategic spatial planning is formed and conditioned through interplay between local policy and administrative management procedures.
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- Hermelin, Brita, 1960-, et al.
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Knowledge dynamics in medical technology
- 2011
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Knowledge development and innovations in medtech – an institutional and multi-scalar approachBrita HermelinDepartment of Human GeogrpahyStockholm Universitybrita.hermelin@humangeo.su.sePaper to be presentet at AAG, Seattle, April 2011Margareta DahlströmKarlstad Univeristy Lukas SmasStockholm University This paper aims to analyse and understand knowledge development and innovations in medtech. The discussion takes an institutional approach and which claims the importance of institutions for societal structures, processes and changes. Institutions refer to informal and formal elements like cultures, social routines, political regulations, the market, firms, the government and other political bodies. Institutional settings are influencing agency and the ability and propensity to, for instance, manage projects to develop new knowledge and innovations for medtech products and solutions.Our empirical case is the developments of innovations and knowledge in medtech in Stockholm, Sweden. We are using interview data from organisations and firms and different secondary sources. In this paper we illustrate how knowledge development and innovations in medtech are situated in a rapidly changing institutional setting. Commercial goals and goals to develop knowledge and new innovations are widely established and the geographical relations are extending to include transnational and global environments. These objectives and geographical mindset are guiding for health care organisations including hospitals, research organisations including the universities, regional development agencies and private companies.We are able to illustrate how innovation and knowledge development in medtech are derived through network organisations that integrate different knowledge resources and capacities and that the institutional settings are absolutely fundamental for the ability and propensity for such creative networks to develop and take form. These networks for knowledge development may be multi-local and transnational and thereby connecting partners from different geographical settings. Key words: medtech, innovations, institutional approach, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Hermelin, Brita, 1960-, et al.
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Knowledge Dynamics in the Stockholm Region : A study of KIBS, ICT and Medtech
- 2010
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This report discusses aspects of the transformation of the economy in the wake of thedevelopment of information and communication technology (ICT) using a case study ofStockholm. This study is conducted as a part of a Nordic research project titled ‘RegionalTrajectories to the Knowledge Economy—Nordic-European Comparisons’ (REKENE).REKENE involves seven regional teams from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, witheach team made up of both researchers and practitioners.The objective of REKENE and the Stockholm case study is to identify activities and processesthat generate knowledge development and innovations. REKENE involves a conceptualframework, which particularly stresses the concepts of knowledge dynamics, of different typesof knowledge, gender aspects, multilocal networks and the processes of anchoring resources tothe region.The different regional teams in REKENE study different industrial sectors. For Stockholm, ourpoint of departure is knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) with a particular focus oncomputer services/ICT expertise and medical technicians and technologists (medtech).The report describes the development of knowledge from the point of departure from a smallfirm engaged in medtech. This description illustrates how interactions between sectors andknowledge domains are distinctive for KIBS, wherein firms work closely with their clients andusually adopt the roles of co-creators and co-producers. Important developments are thengenerated through composite knowledge whereby policies may facilitate the integration of arange of competencies, skills and experiences in networks. Indeed, it is difficult to discern anyouter boundary delimiting the skills that are most relevant for the development of ICTapplications. Although the establishment of strong relationships among local actors in theStockholm region is an important resource for knowledge dynamics to be effective, widerinternational connections are needed for sustainable development.
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- Johannesson, Livia, et al.
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Idén om att bygga framtidens sjukhus
- 2021
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In: Megaprojektet Nya Karolinska Solna. - Göteborg : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170613494 - 9789170618499 ; , s. 102-117
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- Nadin, Vincent, et al.
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COMPASS – Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe : Applied Research 2016-2018: Final Report
- 2018
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The objective of the COMPASS project was to provide an authoritative comparative report on changes in territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe from 2000 to 2016. This Final Report presents the main findings, conclusions and policy recommendations. The COMPASS project compares territorial governance and spatial planning in 32 European countries (the 28 EU member states plus four ESPON partner countries). COMPASS differs from previous studies in that the accent is not on a snapshot comparison of national systems, but on identifying trends in reforms from 2000 to 2016. It also seeks to give reasons for these changes with particular reference to EU directives and policies, and to identify good practices for the cross-fertilisation of spatial development policies with EU Cohesion Policy. The research is based on expert knowledge with reference wherever possible to authoritative sources. Experts with in-depth experience of each national system were appointed to contribute to the study. The research design involved primarily collection of data from the 32 countries through questionnaires and five in-depth case studies of the interaction of EU Cohesion Policy and other sectoral policies with spatial planning and territorial governance.
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- Qvist, Martin, et al.
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Sjukhuset, staden och en vision om förändring
- 2021
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In: Megaprojektet Nya Karolinska Solna. - : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170613494 - 9789170618499 ; , s. 69-84
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- Schmitt, Peter, 1971-, et al.
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Dissolution rather than consolidation - questioning the existence of the comprehensive-integrative planning model
- 2023
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In: Planning practice + research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-7459 .- 1360-0583. ; 38:5, s. 678-693
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Previous research has shown that the comprehensive-integrative planning model seems to be expedient for modernising planning systems, specifically regarding the relation between spatial planning and sectoral policies. However, contemporary, and particularly comparable studies are non-existent. Based on empirical findings from a European research project our comparative analysis explores whether spatial planning in nine countries conforms to key features of this idealised planning model. Our analysis reveals discrepancies regarding how spatial planning is positioned in relation to sectoral policies across the various countries. We argue that this planning model appears rather to be in a state of dissolution than of consolidation.
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- Schmitt, Peter, et al.
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Shifting Political Conditions for Spatial Planning in the Nordic Countries
- 2018
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In: Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning. - New York & London : Routledge. - 9780815369196 - 9781351252881 ; , s. 133-150
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The political conditions for spatial planning in the Nordic countries are changing in multiple directions. This chapter investigates recent shifts and trajectories of change in spatial planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The focus is on the politics behind these recent shifts and the induced rescaling processes and modification of spatial planning instruments. The chapter provides at first a background on the so-called Nordic model, the different political-administrative structures in the Nordic countries and recent changes in regard to the political conditions for spatial planning. After that, we review the shifts in the spatial planning systems in the countries with a particular focus on the spatial planning instruments in the last 15 years. This is followed by a section in which we compare a number of further trajectories related to spatial planning. In the concluding discussion, we take up the post-political question in order to reflect upon to what extent we can identify signifiers towards either depoliticization or even repoliticization in regard to spatial planning in the Nordic countries.
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- Schmitt, Peter, 1971-, et al.
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Urban Planning through Exhibition and Experimentation in Stockholm
- 2016
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In: Smart me up! How to become and how to stay a Smart City, and does this improve quality of life?. - Wien : CORP – Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning. - 9783950417319 ; , s. 1003-1007
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper we discuss findings of our case study on the making and implementation of the exhibition 'Experiment Stockholm' in 2015, which, based on artistic exhibits as well as a number of forums, aimed at generating creative narratives for the sustainable urban future in the Swedish capital city-region. Our analytical framework is informed by the emerging notion of 'urban living labs' across Europe as well as 'communicative' and 'actor-relational' planning theory', which is discussed in another paper within the poceedings of this conference (cf. Schmitt et al. 2016). We argue that the exhibition 'Experiment Stockholm' and the activities around it can be characterised as a soft mode of urban governance that can help to unlock creativity and to open up avenues for experimentation and alternative solutions in urban planning. However, caution must be taken to not overvalue such approaches, as our example implies a rather exclusive expert forum instead of a a mode of governance that might be associated with openness and wider engagement. In addition, our example illustrates the significance of suitable and unconventional methods, which otherwise considerably limits the innovative capacity of the participating stakeholders and their search for alternative solutions.
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- Schmitt, Peter, et al.
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What is the role of spatial planning in relation to other policy areas? : A survey across 32 European countries
- 2018
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In: AESOP 2018.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Spatial planning is often expected to coordinate other policy areas or sector policies, in particular those that have strong spatial impacts. Ideally this process of coordination shall lead to policy integration or to other forms of consensual agreements such as policy packages. Inevitably the question arises to what extent spatial planning can be considered as an autonomous policy area with specific instruments (e.g. statutory frameworks that are of visionary, strategic or regulative character) and power resources. We address this question by discussing and comparing the role of spatial planning across 32 European countries in relation to 14 other policy areas based on findings from the ESPON COMPASS study. First, the degree of integration of spatial planning is investigated within other policy areas at three different policy levels (national, sub-national and local). Secondly, the extent to which these 14 policy areas are influential in current debates on spatial planning will be compared with the year 2000. The analysis reveals a number of recurrent patterns and types of spatial planning as well as directions of change. In the end we argue that spatial planning plays a significant and for the most part even increasing role in relation to other policy areas in most of the studied countries in Europe, but at the same time we can construe a growing degree of diversification between countries, policy levels and policy areas.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-
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Att lokalisera och formge ett megaprojekt : exemplet Nya Karolinska Solna i Hagastadens kluster
- 2021
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In: Megaprojekt. - : Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi. - 9789198215076 - 9198215078 ; , s. 181-205
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Varför lokaliserades megaprojektet Nya Karolinska Solna till Hagasta- den mitt i Stockholmsregionen? Förutsättningarna för att bygga ett nytt sjukhus på denna plats var minst sagt komplexa och har i stor utsträckning påverkat planeringen och utformningen av sjukhuset samtidigt som projektet bidragit till att förändra platsen och dess omgivning. Ett megaprojekt beskrivs ofta i termer av komplexitet, ekonomisk storlek och tidsomfång men i detta kapitel analyseras lokaliseringen och formgivningen av ett megaprojekt, dess rumsliga dimensioner och bevekelsegrunder. Megaprojekt är som Flyvbjerg (2014) poängterat inte bara uppförstorade mindre projekt utan ofta extraordinära projekt med samhällsförändrande potential. De utmanar rådande samhällsstrukturer snarare än anpassar sig till dem. Ett megaprojekt är således svårt att avgränsa och att lokalisera det i tid och rum är en komplex fråga.Detta kapitel utgår ifrån ett utredningsuppdrag om beslutsprocesserna kring planeringen av Nya Karolinska Solna, det så kallade NKS-projektet. Detta megaprojekt syftade till att uppföra ett nytt sjukhus i den nya stadsdelen som fått namnet Hagastaden på gränsen mellan Karolinska sjukhusets område och Karolinska Institutets campus i Solna och det före detta Norra Stationsområdet i Stockholm. NKS var ett megaprojekt som inte bara handlade om att bygga ett nytt sjukhuskomplex, utan även om att omorganisera sjukvården i Stockholmsregionen. Dessutom var syftet också att främja forskning och tillväxt i regionen. Megaprojektet var en viktig del i en vision om att skapa en plats i världsklass, ett kluster för livsvetenskap integrerat i en internationellt attraktiv stadsmiljö.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-, et al.
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Brave new ‘mega-regional worlds’? Critical reflections from a North European perspective
- 2015
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In: Megaregions. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781782547891 ; , s. 146-174
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- How can the established concept of ‘Norden’ – which covers the Northern European countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – be understood in a brave new world of megaregions? The significance of Norden, which literary means ‘the North’, is often acknowledged to be a ‘stabilised’ transnational (mega) region (Gustafsson, 2006). This is due, in part, to the Nordic countries sharing a number of cultural and historical commonalities, somewhat similar political trajectories through the 20th century and a well-known welfare state tradition. Yet, on closer inspection, we have seen in recent years various diverging development paths in territorial policy and politics in general, and urban and regional planning in particular. Furthermore, when adopting a relational perspective, we can detect how a number of Nordic city-regions are being formed and transformed – through transnational (business) networks and various related state spatial strategies – with the aim being to strategically place them as nodes within the global space of flows. What this amounts to is a more fluid geographical image of Norden. Against this backdrop the concept of Norden is an interesting example of how (mega) regions are being constructed through particular sets of relations, processes and mechanisms, while at the same time being challenged and deconstructed by other sets of relations, processes and mechanisms. In this chapter, we seek to problematize these happenings, providing critical reflections from a North European perspective. The research presented derives from a range of studies and observations produced by Nordregio – The Nordic Centre for Spatial Development.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-
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Consumption and Property Development in the CBD
- 2007
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper highlights that urban consumption and property development are interrelated in multiple ways and that these intersections are important for city formation processes generally, but particularly apparent in CBD reconfigurations, as well as for the practices of the new global cultural economy. The real-estate sector is significantly dependent upon global linkages but also much entangled with local institutions and other actors such as retail firms. The public sector still play an important role in the CBD encouraging particular projects based on a certain type of politics. A global urban politics where the built environment and representations of the city are seen as essential for attracting investments and putting the city on the global map, thus much dependent on property development and the real estate sector, and underpinned by assumptions of interurban competitiveness and specific forms of urban consumption. These different types of intersections and relations are explored through examples from Stockholm, but in a global perspective with Sydney as a particular referent. The paper argues firstly that new spatial configurations of consumer service spaces emerging in and around CBDs are especially important intersections, critical for both local urban development and the global economy as well as for social everyday life in the city. Secondly, that in order to appreciate the value of these spaces it is necessary to populate city formation processes and global urban politics with people and things, i.e. with producers and consumers of the spaces and the service practices and the product transactions constituting them.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-
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Fashioning Places : Spatial Practices of Shopping and Retailing
- 2009
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Shopping spaces and consumption places are continuously formed and reformed. The objective with this paper is to outline a time-spatial framework and conceptualisation of how places for shopping are continuously fashioned and refashioned. It draws on and integrates theories on commercial cultures, the production of space and the becoming of places. Stores and other shopping spaces are social places that are formed and reformed through different spatial practices and representations, and in relation to their surroundings. Shopping spaces are fashioned by how retailers strategically use and dominate them but also through how consumers tactically use and appropriate them as places. In the formation of shopping places the temporal dimension is crucial and it is tentatively argued that fashion theory can provide conceptual insights into the fashioning and refashioning of places. The paper is structured into three parts. Firstly, shopping is discussed as a geographical project in relation to geographies of consumption and the cultural economy. It is argued that shopping is constrained and enabled by time and space but also that shopping is a place creating practice and that shopping is a way of being and experiencing places. Secondly, shopping as a situated project and the formation and reformation of shopping places are problematised and illustrated through concrete examples of contrasting everyday life commodities (books, coffee and clothing) and their associated places (bookstores, cafés and fashion shops). Thirdly, the spatial practices of fashion retailing with focus on embeddeness and materialities of service work as a hybrid activity is highlighted.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-
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Former för regional planering
- 2019
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In: Samhällsplaneringens teori och praktik. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147113613 ; , s. 276-284
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-, et al.
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Idén om ett sjukhus i världsklass
- 2021
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In: Megaprojektet Nya Karolinska Solna. - : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170618499 - 9789170613494 ; , s. 86-101
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- Smas, Lukas
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Konsumtion, det urbana livet och stadens morfologi : Transaktioner ur ett tidsrumsligt perspektiv
- 2005
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Urban consumption is both created and recreated by everyday urban life and the morphological structure of the city. Consumption is here conceived of as a drama, where a distinction can be made between consumption as a societal phenomenon and consumption as an everyday life project, which unfolds upon the city stage. The thesis analyses this mutually interdependent relationship by focusing on transactions of commodity goods and services in time and space. This is conducted through a theoretical analysis of the relationships between consumers, products and producers, in which the role of material and immaterial restrictions and institutions are emphasised. Hägerstrand’s time-geography and Lefebvre’s theory of socio-spatial dialectics are in the thesis used for the development of a time-space perspective in which moments of transactions are abstracted from transaction situations. The relationships of transactions are illustrated within their time-space context with concrete examples from Stockholm City.
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- Smas, Lukas, et al.
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Making ESPON knowledge more tangible for detecting regional potentials and challenges : five territorial approaches
- 2014
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In: Europa XXI. - 1429-7132. ; 25, s. 37-49
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The ESPON DeTeC (Detecting Territorial Potential and Challenges) project has developed five territorial approaches that can support regional stakeholders in revealing and detecting challenges and potential within a wider territorial context from a European perspective. The objective of this article is to present these approaches, which can be used to make ESPON knowledge more tangible and which can help in navigating through the inherent tensions, associated with the policy concept of territorial cohesion. In doing so, the article provides at first a brief introduction to the concept of territorial cohesion, a presentation and discussion of the territorial approaches with a particular focus on how they address exogenous challenges and endogenous potentials, conceptualize regional territories within relational spaces, and finally, how they direct attention towards territorial governance and the fluidity of scales and places. It is a practice oriented article that in conclusion discusses how territorial approaches can provide guidance for strategic local and regional policy making and how they help to open up new perspectives in local and regional development through the application of ESPON knowledge.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-, et al.
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On the diversity of spatial planning instruments across Europe
- 2024
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In: Spatial Planning Systems in Europe. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106248 - 9781839106255 ; , s. 107-124
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Spatial planning instruments are fundamental for the operation of spatial planning systems. In the ESPON COMPASS project over 250 spatial planning instruments at different policy levels in 32 European countries were identified. In this chapter we compare and review these planning instruments that are used to mediate competition over the use of land, to allocate rights of development, to regulate change and to promote preferred spatial and urban form. The comparative analysis highlights that there are various types of spatial planning instruments at different policy levels many of which have multiple characteristics, that is, they are expected to have multiple functions in relation to spatial development and territorial governance practices. However, there is a significant consistency in how planning systems are hierarchically structured around spatial planning instruments and how these systems are based on rational ideals. Furthermore, the results indicates that there is a clear direction towards more strategic forms of spatial planning, also among statuary planning instruments. In conclusion, our survey reveals that spatial planning instruments are expected to serve as multi-purpose tools that simultaneously provide strategic frameworks and regulate spatial development whilst they have become less visionary.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-, et al.
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Organising regions : spatial planning and territorial governance practices in two Swedish regions
- 2018
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In: Europa XXI. - : Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences. - 1429-7132 .- 2300-8547. ; 35, s. 21-36
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In some European countries, sub-national regions are important geographical arenas for spa- tial planning. However, in Sweden, statutory regional planning is rather limited and the regional level is often described as having a weak position in the spatial planning system. In this article, we investigate territorial governance practices in two Swedish regions, with a focus on their interaction with the EU and the national level, and with the local level, as well as how these regions function as organisations and arenas for coordination of different policy fields. The study is based on semi-structured expert inter- views and document analysis. The results show that spatial planning is practised both through statutory planning and soft planning approaches, and that these practices in different ways coordinate sectoral policies i.e. transport infrastructure and regional development. Both cases also illustrate difficulties not only of external coordination between different institutions and policy fields but also internally within or- ganisations. It is also highlighted that spatial planning at the regional level focuses on coordinating actors and policy fields but that spatial planning is also an instrument to implement regional policies. In con- clusion, it is argued that the organisation and territorial governance practices within a given institutional arrangement and the perception of spatial planning are crucial in determining how regions might function as multi-level coordination actors and policy arenas within spatial planning.
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- Smas, Lukas, et al.
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Positioning Regional Planning across Europe
- 2019
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In: Abstract Book 2019 RSA Annual Conference. - 9781897721698 ; , s. 180-180
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Across Europe the regional policy level is difficult to capture analytically, due to the prevailing differences in terms of institutional settings and political contexts, geographic size and scope of regions. Regional planning is not an exception as it is institutionalized differently across Europe and its practical significance varies in regard to mediating competition over the use of land, regulating change and promoting preferred spatial and urban form. In general, the regional level is often considered as an appropriate scale for addressing current challenges in relation to sustainable development; and regional planning as such is appreciated as a sub-national mode of horizontal and vertical coordination to integrate various policy fields. However, the institutional context of regional planning has changed significantly in recent years, which has resulted in weakening its political significance and practical relevance. In this paper, we question and nuance these seemingly diverging theoretical and practical views on the position of regional planning through a comparative analysis of regional planning across Europe. Drawing upon results from the ESPON COMPASS (2018) project, we investigate i) shifts in the distribution of spatial planning competences; ii) changes in regard to regional planning instruments, and iii) the role of regional planning within sectoral policies. We conclude that the institutional and instrumental conditions for regional planning across Europe are extensive and to some extent have been renewed and adapted to changing contexts in recent years. In principal regional planning seems to be well positioned to mediate the use of land and to regulate spatial development. However, the role of regional planning is differently positioned in each country in relation to various sectoral policies and the way statutory instruments are produced and applied. Due to diverging trajectories of regional planning our comparative analysis indicates only minor congruence with earlier classifications of spatial planning traditions across Europe.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-, et al.
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Positioning regional planning across Europe
- 2021
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In: Regional studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0034-3404 .- 1360-0591. ; 55:5, s. 778-790
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Many scholars argue that regional planning has lost its political significance and practical relevance in recent years. Based on a comparative analysis of formal regional planning in eight European countries, this study questions and nuances this view. It is concluded that the institutional conditions for regional planning are still extensive and have been adapted to changing contexts since the year 2000, but along different pathways across the analysed countries. The investigation highlights that multiple forms of planning regions have been incorporated in the planning systems through multipurpose planning instruments that have further added to the existing dynamic and diversified regional planning landscape across Europe.
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- Smas, Lukas, et al.
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Positioning urban labs – a new form of smart governance?
- 2016
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In: Smart Me Up! How to become and how to stay a Smart City, and does this improve quality of life?. - Wien : CORP – Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning. - 9783950417302 - 9783950417319 ; , s. 919-923
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- Smas, Lukas, et al.
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Re-thinking and reviewing European spatial planning systems through spatial planning instruments : A comparative study of 32 countries
- 2018
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In: AESOP 2018.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Plans and other planning instruments that are used to mediate and regulate spatial development are fundamental for the operation of spatial planning systems, and for defining them, as well as pursing spatial planning objectives. This paper is based on an extensive comparative study of spatial planning systems in Europe (ESPON COMPASS), which included a review of spatial planning instruments that are used to mediate competition over the use of land, to allocate rights of development, to regulate change and to promote preferred spatial and urban form. Over 250 spatial planning instruments in 32 different European countries were identified by national experts. The results show a diverse pattern with strong differences in regard to the instruments' characteristics (e.g. visionary, strategic, framework or regulative) at different policy levels (national, regional and local) even between countries that have been grouped together within similar types or traditions in earlier studies. Furthermore, many individual planning instruments are often expected to combine several functions, e.g. they are expected to simultaneously be, in different combinations; visionary and agenda setting, providing strategic and long-term coordination, establishing policy frameworks for other plans and decisions, and/or be regulatory including legally binding land use commitments. Many planning instruments might thus be understood as 'multi-purpose tools'. Based on this review and analysis we offer empirically derived typologies and conceptualizations of spatial planning instruments that provide a different image of spatial planning systems across Europe compared to earlier studies, and as such gives insights in what directions spatial planning in Europe is moving.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-, et al.
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Region + planering = regionplanering – en komplicerad ekvation
- 2022
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In: Regioner och regional utveckling i en föränderlig tid. - Stockholm : Svenska Sällskapet för antropologi och Geografi. - 9789198215083 ; , s. 43-62
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I detta kapitel undersöker vi regional planering som generell företeelse och den svenska regionala planeringens besynnerligheter. Med utgångspunkt i detta är syftet med kapitlet att klargöra varför regional planering är en så komplicerad ekvation i Sverige idag.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-
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Sjukhuset, regionen och staden : planeringens komplexitet och rumsliga rationaliteter
- 2020
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Nya Karolinska sjukhuset i Solna (NKS) har varit ett omfattande samhällsplaneringsprojekt. Det har handlat om att bygga ett nytt sjukhus i världsklass och om att reformera sjukvården i regionen – en ny byggnad för en ny organisation. Det urbana sjukhuset har även varit en viktig komponent i stadsutvecklingsprojektet Hagastaden och i utvecklingen av ett regionalt kluster i världsklass. För att förstå ett megaprojekt som NKS är det viktigt att sätta in det i ett vidare samhälleligt sammanhang men också i den lokala och regionala kontext det är sprunget ur. Denna här rapporten redovisar resultat från en rumslig analys av detta samhällsplaneringsprojekt. I analysen har fokus varit dels på kontextens betydelse, dels på de olika typer av rumsliga föreställningar och fysiska åtgärder som har underbyggt planeringen av NKS och stadsdelen Hagastaden.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-
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The Changing Production of Consumer Service Spaces
- 2005
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper argues that it is important to recognise the changing production of service spaces, against the background of increased possibilities for social, economical and physical mobility, because it poses new challenges for urban policy making, entrepreneurialism and everyday urban life. The fluidity and flexibility of people, products and information have resulted in paradoxical processes of both concentration and dispersal spatially, and changed the formation process of cities in general and service spaces in particular. There are different types of service spaces but one of vast significance in the contemporary service economy and in a society characterised by urbanisation, neoliberalisation and globalisation, is the consumption nexus. The focus here is therefor on transactions of commodities from producer to consumer, which, to put the commodity transactions in a wider spatial and temporal context, can be described as a pocket of local order. And also on how these ordered place-based juxtapositions of actors and processes are produced in a dialectical relationship between spatial practices, representations of space and representational spaces. Drawing on a case study of the reconfiguration of Hötorgshusen in Stockholm CBD this paper shows the interwoven multi-scalar power relations and the diversity of actors and processes, involved in the production of consumer service spaces. Producers (both local entrepreneurs and global corporations), consumers (downtown office workers as well as visitors from near and far) as well as private and public institutions are vital actors, and commodities important actants, in the reconfiguration of places for commodity transactions.
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- Smas, Lukas, 1975-
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Transaction Spaces : Consumption Configurations and City Formation
- 2008
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Consumption forms and is formed by the city. How, when and where commodities are transacted is essential in this urban drama of mutual relationships. This thesis explores how consumption and everyday life in cities are interrelated. The specific objective is to analyse how commodity transaction situations are configured and constrained in time and space, and, how consumer service spaces are formed in and are part of city formation. Transactions are conceptualised as economically and socially situated material projects constituted by consumers, commodities and producers. Commodities and values are transferred and created through transaction spaces. The theoretical perspective is framed around consumption and production of spaces, and particularly informed by Hägerstrand’s time-geographical thinking and Lefebvre’s work on urban space. Methodologically different examples of consumption projects and spaces are used to discuss configurations and formations for commodity transactions. The thesis stresses material and time-spatial constraints for commodity transaction and it discusses the blurring of boundaries between what conventionally has been separate social and economic activities and places. Changing transaction configurations and the formation of consumer service spaces in the city are explored through analysis of different consumption places and commodities such as books, coffee and clothes and property development projects in Stockholm city centre. Transaction configurations display geographical and historical continuities and changes as well as time-spatial flexibility and spatial fixity. Transactions spaces are continuously formed and reformed through processes embedded in the global cultural economy, urban development and politics, as well as through people’s everyday life. Producers’ strategic production and consumers’ tactical appropriation of transactions spaces are accentuated as crucial in the spatial practice of transactions, places and city formation.
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- Tangnäs, Johanna
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Utveckling, konkurrens och möjliga framtider : En studie om görandet av hållbarhet i regional utvecklingspolitik
- 2024
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Regional development policy has been devoted to tackling global competition for decades. This governmental rationality puts growth objectives at the heart of development and Swedish regions have channelled their efforts into building attractiveness and supporting market differentiation. This competitive orientation has been accompanied by a collaborative approach, rather than by political debate over competing ideological positions. Since the early 2020s, a new direction for regional development has begun to evolve as the Swedish government is changing its regional policy from regional growth to sustainable regional development. By using Carol Bacchi’s critical policy approach (WPR), this thesis explores how sustainability is represented in recent regional development policy and whether these problem representations create room for other conceptualisations of development or open up space for what Chantal Mouffe describes as the political to re-enter the policy field. The study draws on fieldwork comprising interviews, policy documents and observations. The thesis shows that regional development is changing into a broader and more societal-oriented field as a result of the sustainability efforts, but the major problem representations identified in the policy proposals produce sustainability as a problem of outdated methods, silo-based organisation and a lack of innovative tools. Aspects such as climate change, inequality or loss of biodiversity are seldom addressed in the proposals. Together, this constitutes sustainability in regional development as a matter of form, rather than content. As a consequence of the effects of how sustainability is currently represented, the thesis concludes that there are openings for re-vitalisation due to colliding aims and approaches, but the challenge they pose to the established rationality has not yet induced a (re)politicisation of development in regional policy.
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