From social engineering to neoliberal governance, and then what? Mapping a sustainability shift in urban planning in a medium-sized Swedish city

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Frontiers in Sustainable Cities Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI:10.3389/frsc.2023.1273972
Ida Sjöberg
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Introduction This paper focuses on how a (assumed) entrepreneurial shift in urban planning and development has been implemented in a medium-sized city in northern Sweden, and how sustainability-as in sustainable urban development-can be argued to be a second shift in urban planning and development or represents an alternative form of neoliberal governance. Method To explore how and when urban entrepreneurialism and sustainability are interlinked, as well as when they are not, urban policy documents from 1988, 2007 and 2016 focusing on the development of Sundsvall city center has been examined using thematic content analysis. Results The result shows that the 1988 document is significantly influenced by social democratic welfare politics, with prioritizing social bonds and the Sundsvall resident being the focus, while the newer documents emphasize visitors, potential residents and architectural design to promote the flow of people, money and goods. In this sustainability is put forward as a mobilizing metaphor, and serves to conceal the potential paradoxes of the priorities of the strategy, which involve the contradictions between economic, environmental and social values. Discussion Consequently, it is possible to claim that sustainability, as a concept, has acquired a new function: to disguise the less palatable consequences of growth by evoking sustainability as a guarantee of the strategy's quality.
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从社会工程到新自由主义治理,然后呢?绘制瑞典一个中型城市城市规划的可持续性转变
本文关注的是瑞典北部一个中型城市在城市规划和发展方面的(假设的)企业家转变是如何实施的,以及可持续城市发展中的可持续性如何被认为是城市规划和发展的第二次转变,或者代表了新自由主义治理的另一种形式。方法采用主题内容分析的方法,对1988年、2007年和2016年有关松德斯瓦尔市中心发展的城市政策文件进行分析,探讨城市创业精神与可持续性之间的相互关系,以及何时相互关系。结果1988年的文件受到社会民主福利政治的显著影响,优先考虑社会纽带和松兹瓦尔居民,而较新的文件强调游客、潜在居民和建筑设计,以促进人员、资金和货物的流动。在这种情况下,可持续性被提出作为一个动员隐喻,并用于掩盖战略优先事项的潜在悖论,其中涉及经济,环境和社会价值之间的矛盾。因此,有可能声称可持续性作为一个概念已经获得了一种新的功能:通过唤起可持续性作为战略质量的保证来掩盖增长的不那么令人愉快的后果。
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