Planering för social blandning: En diskurs om grannskapseffekter och stadsförnyelse
(2016) SGEL36 20162Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- Strategies and goals of social mix as a mean to fight against problems that are connected to segregation has had an upsurge since the beginning of 2000 in urban planning. The aim of this study is to acknowledge and furthermore problematize the dominant discourse of a planning for social mix. The logic behind the political discourse is that heterogeneous areas brings better life chances for people, which has been criticized by many academics in the field. This essay is built on a critical agenda and the theory represents two different types of rhetoric that surrounds the political discourse. The first sees social mixing as a solution of problems connected to segregation and the other sees it as a strategy for gentrification. Some scholars... (More)
- Strategies and goals of social mix as a mean to fight against problems that are connected to segregation has had an upsurge since the beginning of 2000 in urban planning. The aim of this study is to acknowledge and furthermore problematize the dominant discourse of a planning for social mix. The logic behind the political discourse is that heterogeneous areas brings better life chances for people, which has been criticized by many academics in the field. This essay is built on a critical agenda and the theory represents two different types of rhetoric that surrounds the political discourse. The first sees social mixing as a solution of problems connected to segregation and the other sees it as a strategy for gentrification. Some scholars mean that the first type of rhetoric is used to cover processes of gentrification. To fulfil the purpose a discourse analysis is used to look at strategic planning documents from Malmö municipality. I argue that a certain discourse of a planning for social mix is institutionalized in Malmö municipality, which means that the strategies are taken as a “natural” way to achieve a coherent city. I also argue that when the discourse becomes concrete in the urban spaces conflicting discourses proves. (Less)
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- author
- Bachs, Astrid LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SGEL36 20162
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- social mix, planning, discourse analysis, Malmö municipality
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8898111
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abstract = {{Strategies and goals of social mix as a mean to fight against problems that are connected to segregation has had an upsurge since the beginning of 2000 in urban planning. The aim of this study is to acknowledge and furthermore problematize the dominant discourse of a planning for social mix. The logic behind the political discourse is that heterogeneous areas brings better life chances for people, which has been criticized by many academics in the field. This essay is built on a critical agenda and the theory represents two different types of rhetoric that surrounds the political discourse. The first sees social mixing as a solution of problems connected to segregation and the other sees it as a strategy for gentrification. Some scholars mean that the first type of rhetoric is used to cover processes of gentrification. To fulfil the purpose a discourse analysis is used to look at strategic planning documents from Malmö municipality. I argue that a certain discourse of a planning for social mix is institutionalized in Malmö municipality, which means that the strategies are taken as a “natural” way to achieve a coherent city. I also argue that when the discourse becomes concrete in the urban spaces conflicting discourses proves.}},
author = {{Bachs, Astrid}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Planering för social blandning: En diskurs om grannskapseffekter och stadsförnyelse}},
year = {{2016}},
}