Risk and approaches to risk-taking in testbed planning
Berglund-Snodgrass, Lina
Abstract
Urban experimentation and testbed planning have emerged as a response for developing solutions to contemporary urban challenges and constitute designated spaces of risk-taking. They represent strategic attempts at reimagining, influencing and even altering urban futures through the specific focus of being open to surprises and the unexpected. The aim of this article is to conceptualize risk in testbed planning and analyze risk and urban planning approaches to risk-taking. By using mobility experiments in five Nordic municipalities, it is shown that three approaches to risk prevail with regard to different loci of risk in testbed planning. These three approaches are minimizing and shifting responsibilities for individual risk, minimizing and shifting organizational risks and refusing political risks.
Keywords
Risk; risk-taking; urban experimentation; urban planning; testbed-planning
Published in
Planning Practice and Research
2022, Volume: 37, number: 1, article number: e1992942
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
UKÄ Subject classification
Landscape Architecture
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2021.1992942
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/117510