Actor-Relational Planning in Deprived Areas: Challenges and Opportunities in Luchtbal Antwerpen, Belgium

Boelens, Luuk; Coppens, Tom

doi:10.1080/02697459.2015.1060051

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“…This procedural focus supports the temporal understanding of the integrative social dynamics at the actor level (Pettigrew, 1997;Langley, 1999). Contrastingly, although planning research has acknowledged that the actor-relational aspects of planning processes are not yet adequately understood (Boelens and Coppens, 2015;Boelens, 2010), methods for revealing their often-invisible dynamics and their effects over time are still missing. This lack of established methods for systematic longitudinal analysis is explained by challenges in acquiring applicable data, and missing conceptualisations.…”

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confidence: 66%

The impact of actor-relational dynamics on integrated planning practice

Eräranta

Mladenović

2021

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Integrated planning processes involve an increasing number of actors and aim to create synergy between multiple knowledges in communicative settings. Planning research has acknowledged that the actor-relational aspects of planning processes are not yet adequately understood, and that methods to reveal the ofteninvisible dynamics and their possible effects over time require development. This research aims at developing a methodological contribution for revealing the socio-communicative complexities of integrated planning processes, by focusing on the aspects of knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Actorrelational dynamics are explored through social network analysis and qualitative methods, using longitudinal data from a four-year strategic spatial planning process in the Finnish context. The findings indicate that a range of actor-relational dynamics affect the level of sectoral and scalar integration over time, and that social complexities have an essential role in enabling knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Unveiling actor-relational dynamics is a promising research direction, requiring new methods for bridging research and practice, and re-centring the need for understanding planning practice on the actor-relational level.

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confidence: 66%

The impact of actor-relational dynamics on integrated planning practice

Eräranta

Mladenović

2021

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“…In Finland, mainstream urban planning mostly considers urban development in terms of formal land-use planning projects, and seldom deals with urban change that stems from the everyday life of urban neighborhoods (Wallin, 2019). Selforganizing urban development calls for planning approaches that follow and support these activities on their own terms (Boonstra & Boelens, 2011;Boelens & Coppens, 2015). One approach could be to nurture supportive structures for everyday life in urban neighborhoods, which in the long run may create prerequisites for urban development activities (Wallin, 2019).…”

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“…Moreover, in constrained contexts, it might be challenging to decide what proactive action to take (Schlappa & Neill, 2013;Forester, 2016). Yet, research on coevolutionary planning has mostly focused on large-scale development projects facing contextual volatility (see for example Bertolini, 2010;Gerrits & Teisman, 2012;Majoor, 2015), whereas to our knowledge few studies (see Boelens & Coppens, 2015;Schlappa & Neill, 2013) have dealt with contexts whose starting point is a constrained situation.…”

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Co-Evolutionary Urban Planning of a Finnish City for its Low Growth Neighborhoods

Kosunen

Atkova

Hirvonen-Kantola

2020

Planning Theory & Practice

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Mainstream urban planning relies on economic growth to produce social and environmental benefits, but in low-growth areas that relationship is not functional. We argue that urban planning in low-growth areas could reveal new ways to produce welfare by taking action without pre-defining the outcomes. We define such planning as co-evolutionary, and study how urban planners in the City of Turku, Finland, applied it in three low-growth contexts. We conclude that the approach was recognized, but taking action under conditions of uncertainty was challenging. Further, we identify three activities and challenges related to coevolutionary urban planning in low-growth areas.

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“…Correspondingly, actors often avoid experimenting with planning solutions (Boelens & Coppens, 2015), especially after the initial, visionary stage of the planning process (Majoor, 2015). Thus, the challenge of co-evolutionary planning is that while plans should leave room for contextual changes, they seemingly prefer some future developments over others.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Planning in such situations requires adaptive capacity: while planning has the power to set things in motion, an uncertain future makes us unable to foresee how a situation will develop, and should therefore leave room for change. The challenge is that urban planning is often expected to produce clearly defined planning problems and solutions, which hinders viewing planning as an activity with uncertain outcomes (Bertolini, 2010;Boelens & Coppens, 2015;Majoor, 2015).…”

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Fatalism in Co-evolutionary Urban Planning: Experiences from Infill Planning in Finland

Kosunen

Hirvonen-Kantola

2020

Planning Practice & Research

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While urban planning must deal with complexity, considering planning as an activity with uncertain outcomes is challenging. This paper explores how urban planning may both proactively motivate development and adapt to change. We view such planning as co-evolutionary, and conceptualize it further by utilizing Cultural Theory, and building on a case study of infill planning in Oulu, Finland.We conclude that while the three active rationales from Cultural Theory can motivate urban development, the fourth, passive, fatalistic rationale, is also needed in order to acknowledge an uncertain future. Further, we discuss three challenges in using fatalism as a planning rationale.

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Actor-Relational Planning in Deprived Areas: Challenges and Opportunities in Luchtbal Antwerpen, Belgium

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

The impact of actor-relational dynamics on integrated planning practice

The impact of actor-relational dynamics on integrated planning practice

Co-Evolutionary Urban Planning of a Finnish City for its Low Growth Neighborhoods

Fatalism in Co-evolutionary Urban Planning: Experiences from Infill Planning in Finland

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