Abstract

While innovative approaches to urban transformations are increasingly proposed, scholars often overlook challenges faced by endogenous actors (e.g. urban planners) tasked with taking action within non-ideal, real-world settings. Here we argue that an 'inside' view of transformations (focused on judgment in practice) is needed to complement existing 'outside' views (focused on assessment), where the feasibility of action becomes a central concern. This recasts urban transformations in a discretised perspective. It suggests a view of transformation pathways as both directed and stochastic, and emergent from an unfolding series of 'fuzzy action moments'. Principles for bridging urban science and planning are derived.

Published in

npj Urban Sustainability
2021, Volume: 1, number: 1, article number: 28
Publisher: SPRINGERNATURE

SLU Authors

• Raymond, Christopher

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • University of Helsinki

UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography
Landscape Architecture


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00029-7

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/123207