Spatial Theory in Planning Practice? : On the Concepts of Space that Made Urban Design a Planning Solution for Segregation in Malmö, Sweden
(2024) In Antipode- Abstract (Swedish)
- Studying the Sorgenfri urban renewal project in the Swedish city of Malmö, this article suggests that a shift in planning documents reflects a new understanding of segregation containing traces of arguments from theoretical debates in geography. This new understanding of segregation appears informed by geographic debates on encounters, mobility, and boundaries, and implies that segregation is best addressed by planners in public space “between” housing areas to create more “meetings” between “strangers”. While planning focused on segregation in a more granular way, it also ignored racialised inequality's structural preconditions in ways that perfectly match the neoliberal premises of municipal planning. Thus, translating spatial theory... (More)
- Studying the Sorgenfri urban renewal project in the Swedish city of Malmö, this article suggests that a shift in planning documents reflects a new understanding of segregation containing traces of arguments from theoretical debates in geography. This new understanding of segregation appears informed by geographic debates on encounters, mobility, and boundaries, and implies that segregation is best addressed by planners in public space “between” housing areas to create more “meetings” between “strangers”. While planning focused on segregation in a more granular way, it also ignored racialised inequality's structural preconditions in ways that perfectly match the neoliberal premises of municipal planning. Thus, translating spatial theory into planning practice can be seen as a strategically selective work shaped by local political conditions. This means that geographers’ work might have unexpected and undesired effects even when it has “impact” in policy practice, and that geographers would do well to face this challenge equally strategically. (Less)
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- author
- Pries, Johan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-04-29
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- urban planning, social theory, spatial theory, architectural theory, assemblage, policy mobility, Malmö, spatial planning, segregation, public space, boundaries
- in
- Antipode
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85191097564
- ISSN
- 0066-4812
- DOI
- 10.1111/anti.13047
- project
- Urban Arena
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 88094aba-d1c7-4f59-a11b-766bff56982d
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abstract = {{Studying the Sorgenfri urban renewal project in the Swedish city of Malmö, this article suggests that a shift in planning documents reflects a new understanding of segregation containing traces of arguments from theoretical debates in geography. This new understanding of segregation appears informed by geographic debates on encounters, mobility, and boundaries, and implies that segregation is best addressed by planners in public space “between” housing areas to create more “meetings” between “strangers”. While planning focused on segregation in a more granular way, it also ignored racialised inequality's structural preconditions in ways that perfectly match the neoliberal premises of municipal planning. Thus, translating spatial theory into planning practice can be seen as a strategically selective work shaped by local political conditions. This means that geographers’ work might have unexpected and undesired effects even when it has “impact” in policy practice, and that geographers would do well to face this challenge equally strategically.}},
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keywords = {{urban planning; social theory; spatial theory; architectural theory; assemblage; policy mobility; Malmö; spatial planning; segregation; public space; boundaries}},
language = {{swe}},
month = {{04}},
publisher = {{Wiley-Blackwell}},
series = {{Antipode}},
title = {{Spatial Theory in Planning Practice? : On the Concepts of Space that Made Urban Design a Planning Solution for Segregation in Malmö, Sweden}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.13047}},
doi = {{10.1111/anti.13047}},
year = {{2024}},
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