Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Johan Pries

Johan Pries

Biträdande universitetslektor

Johan Pries

A technocratic road to spatial justice? : The standard as planning knowledge and the making of postwar Sweden’s welfare landscapes

Författare

  • Johan Pries

Summary, in English

This article analyses the politics of spatial justice in the knowledge-making practices of planning expertise in postwar Sweden. The paper traces the genealogy of ‘standards’ in modern Swedish planning, arguing that this was a fundamental form of planning knowledge which came to articulate a ‘universalist’ politics of justice. Standards were constructed as a way to measure and make complex calculations about a range of ‘needs’, making the overarching goal of planning to address the universal human needs measured by standards. This technocratic articulation of justice had limitations. Standards often proved difficult for grassroots groups to contest this expertise, but were a mode of knowledge well-suited to corporate interests looking to influence planners to make space for their standardized consumer products. These tensions came to the fore in the planning of postwar Sweden's green outdoor spaces, where the standards for car users played a crucial role in shaping the landscape and planners hesitated to define national standards for areas such as parks and green space provision. Expert knowledge such as standards might, then, be a powerful tool to systematically shape space according to a particular articulation of justice, yet Sweden’s technocratic road to spatial justice also exemplifies the dangers of this approach.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

Publiceringsår

2022-04-17

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

285-305

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volym

104

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Human Geography
  • History
  • Landscape Architecture (including Planning, Design, Management)

Nyckelord

  • spatial planning
  • urban planning
  • Welfare State
  • spatial justice
  • Epistemology
  • stakeholders
  • spatial planning
  • spatial justice
  • expert knowledge
  • public space
  • welfare state
  • urban planning

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1468-0467