Whose Knowledge Counts in the Planning of Urban Sustainability? - Investigating Handbooks for Nudging and Participation

Sammanfattning

When planning sustainable districts, planners mediate between the knowledge claims of citizens and experts. The planning strategies nudging and participation provide contradictory ideas about how planners can perform this mediation. We analyse handbooks for the two strategies, guided by the question: whose knowledge counts? These handbooks provide citizens, experts and planners with varying degrees of authority. While nudging positions behavioural experts as holding authority, and citizens are central in participation, planners feature in the background in both strategies. We show how these seemingly apolitical strategies are actually value-laden. Implementing them literally will undermine planning for urban sustainability.

Nyckelord

Governance; expertise; behavioural change; frame analysis; planning; planners

Publicerad i

Planning Theory and Practice
2022, volym: 23, nummer: 3, sidor: 388-405
Utgivare: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU författare

• Westin, Martin

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Joosse, Sofie

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG11 Hållbara städer och samhällen
SDG16 Fredliga och inkluderande samhällen

UKÄ forskningsämne

Tvärvetenskapliga studier

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2022.2055118

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/116863