Urban social sustainability policies in the Nordic region

Tunström, Moa

doi:10.4324/9781315115740-3

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“…In a paradoxical twist of fate, the compact city does not lead to a more sustainable future, but amplifies problems of unjust socio-spatial development. Tunström (2019: 55) concludes that within compact city development, the ‘social’ is associated with superficially treating symptoms of these uneven developments: ‘e.g., solving segregation by mixing tenure forms, solving the lack of social capital by area-based community projects or solving the democratic deficit by participatory experiments’. This illustrates that just as we need to treat sustainability as a relational concept on a city and regional (Miller and Mössner, 2020) as well as on a global scale, we cannot think of the compact city as a spatial container.…”

Section: Compact Cities As a Problem-solving And Amplifying Container...mentioning

confidence: 99%

It’s not about compact cities

Herburger

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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While the compact city has become a major element for sustainable urban development and one of the most controversially discussed issues in contemporary urban studies, I argue that compactness has been a central element of various models of urban development for over 100 years. When we talk about a ‘renewed agenda’ for the compact city, we need to consider how historic settlement patterns, shaped by specific socio-historical conditions and ideas of compactness are re-structured through the contemporary conception of the compact city. My main argument is that the compact city in its current conception is mainly treating symptoms of unsustainable urban development but does not go deep enough to change existing patterns of uneven social geographies. By integrating the compact city with Henri Lefebvre’s conception of centrality I discuss four socio–material relations to demonstrate how centrality affects the social unevenness of spatial development and can lead us towards an understanding of compact cities as multi-scalar fields of relations today.

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Section: Compact Cities As a Problem-solving And Amplifying Container...mentioning

confidence: 99%

It’s not about compact cities

Herburger

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…Nordic considerations of urban well-being broadly encompass physical and mental features, and include questions of dignity and rights to space. Most work in this vein has explored how to create "livable" urban environments (Isenhour, 2011;Lundberg et al, 2019;Tunström, 2019). There has been a particular emphasis here on compact-city strategies (Mouratidis 2018a;2018b;2018c;, and other spatial determinants of urban well-being (Ala-Mantila et al, 2018;Hansen, 2015), from Oslo to Helsinki.…”

Section: Centering Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A very Nordic set of concerns?

Centner¹

2021

NJUS

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This article identifies visionary circumspection as a conceptual vector running through Nordic urban research -a diverse enterprise with robust empirical outputs, but relatively little premium placed on the generation of urban theory. To foster new cross-regional conversations that can bolster the theoretical fecundity of Nordic urban studies, the author overviews key themes in the region's urban research portfolio -well-being, diversification and socio-spatial transformations, governance and development models, and sustainable futures -and then delineates sites in other world regions that are grappling with related topics but sometimes with different approaches or conceptualizations. By situating Nordic urban research vis-à-vis these disparate sites and theoretical repertoires, the article aims to leverage Nordic self-regard and open up discussions that could enable more ambitious theoretical engagements between the region's cities and the rest of the world. Keywords conceptual vectors, cross-regional conversations, Nordic models, self-regard, urban theory 1. I should also hasten to add, with humility, that despite my usual insistence on polyglot engagement with the regions where I typically do research, I come to this Nordic project with the significant handicap of being limited to the research literature available in English, which presents its own substantial circumscriptions (see Kong & Qian, 2017; Müller, forthcoming).

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“…Therefore, the next section reviews selected research literature. (Tunström, 2019). It is often used to frame issues related to social inclusion, cohesion, democracy and engagement in urban development.…”

Section: International Framework Of Disability Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%