Dilemmas of Sustainable Urban Development

Lindblad (J.), Metzger (J.) — 2020-07-05T20:09:00Z

"Dilemmas of Sustainable Urban Development offers valuable insights into a difficult line of work whose practice inevitably requires a confrontation with fundamental conflicts between divergent goals, and therefore also demands difficult choices and compromises. With contributions from leading academics and expert practitioners, this book provides readers with diverse international case studies which highlight and examine the concrete challenges of practicing sustainable urban development."

"The examples in this book touch upon all aspects of sustainable urban development work, from City Hall to the local park. All of the cases unfold in their own specific contexts under particular circumstances—but from each one of them there are general lessons that can be used to inform practice. This book is essential reading for anyone who is active as a student, researcher, or practitioner in the field of urban development."

SOMMAIRE

Introduction : "A practice-centered approach to dilemmas of sustainable urban development", Jonathan Metzger & Jenny Lindblad
Chapter 1. Law : "Sustainable Development in English planning law : Golden Thread or Black Swan", Sue Chadwick
Chapter 2. Politics : "Who stands up for the ecology ? The politics of sustainable land use in Stockholm", Sabina Edelman
Chapter 3. Concretization : "Sustainability in city management and urban planning in Gothenburg : from vague vision to social inclusion activities", Petra Adolfsson and Sara Brorström
Chapter 4. Strategy : "What is more important than getting things done ? Learning from Sustainable Sydney 2030", Martin Kornberger
Chapter 5. Best practice : "Best-Practices : Contradictions of the ‘Green City' in Germany", Samuel Mössner & Rob Krueger
Chapter 6. Mobility : "Promises of intermodality for sustainable mobility in Bordeaux", Patrice Godier & Guy Tapie
Chapter 7. Complexities : "Construction sites of sustainable low carbon transition in Paris : snapshots of internal organization, energy plans and technical infrastructure", Jonathan Rutherford & Sylvère Angot
Chapter 8. Values : "Valuing sustainability in Bordeaux : should the lawn be mowed ?" , Jenny Lindblad
Chapter 9. Programming : "Programming urban transitions in practice", Jonas Bylund
Chapter 10. Evidence : "Evidence-based urban development : beyond the urban anecdotes ?", Magnus Johansson & Joakim Forsemalm
Chapter 11. Smart : "Climate-Smart Cities : A corporate takeover of urban environmental governance in Malmö ?", Darcy Parks
Chapter 12. Ownership : "Delivering sustainable development : landownership and accountability in Cambridge city", Sophia Peacock & Phil Allmendinger
Chapter 13. Tools : "Realizing the vision of a socially inclusive RiverCity", Jacob Lindkvist, Kristian Käll & Anders Svensson
Chapter 14. Commons : "Producing collaborative sustainable urban development : experiences of water management in Bangalore, India", Hita Unnikrishnan, Vanesa Castán Broto & Harini Nagendra
Chapter 15. Expectations : "Hope and despair : professionals' struggle to navigate multiple planning ideas in a public-private collaboration in Gothenburg", Mari Kågström
Chapter 16. Concluding commentary : "Will sustainability be replaced by resilience, and if so, why ?", Barbara Czarniawska

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Planning Contexts : bureaucracy and rule relations in French urbanism

Lindblad (J.) — 2020-03-06T11:08:00Z

Jenny Lindblad est doctorante en Anthropologie (spécialité Planning and decision analysis). Elle a participé à la recherche comparative "Organizing the sustainable city : planning, strategy, governance, management" financée par le Conseil suédois de la recherche (VR) en collaboration avec l'institut Royal de Technologie, l'Université de Cambridge et l'Université de Göteborg. Elle contribue également à la rédaction d'AnthroPod, the podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

This thesis draws on work among anthropologists and planning theorists inquiring through ethnography how contemporary urban planning unfolds concretely in diverse localities. It does so by asking questions about particularities of contexts in which planning efforts are enacted, and urban actors mobilize contexts towards diverse aims. The locale that I analyze is land use planning in Bordeaux, a city that launched the revision of their PLU to the backdrop of recent planning reforms, reforms including a shift in scale from plan-making in smaller municipalities towards larger metropoles, and a shift towards more flexibility to ensure that development plans are adjustable to unpredictable near-futures. The thesis traces the implications put forward in the bordelaise PLU about it being a ‘contextualized' plan. I engaging with the implications of this claim based on fieldwork among planners, administrators, local politicians and planning documents in Bordeaux. In discussions among planning practitioners and theorists, context is a notion often sympathetically associated with bottom-up approaches and sensitivity to local communities. Rather than resonating with such assumptions, I show how the idea of a contextualized plan in Bordeaux was charged with co-existing and conflicting political and technical temporalities, and intersected with manipulations of legal-bureaucratic temporalities. The call for a ‘contextualized' plan was riddled with adverse relations between planners' further-looking perspectives and local politicians' strive for assuring authority over planning decisions in an unfolding presence, suggesting an importance to attend to diverse and conflicting temporalities embedded in calls for ‘context'. The thesis rejoins what previous scholarly work has emphasized about urban planning both shaping and being shaped by diverse contextual factors, and suggests an importance to critically engage with urban actors assertions about attending to ‘contexts'.

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Dilemmas of Sustainable Urban Development

Planning Contexts : bureaucracy and rule relations in French urbanism