This insightful book examines the role of an urban contingencies approach in understanding contemporary urban sustainability planning, emphasising the importance of context and place sensitivity and offering a crucial alternative to existing best practice planning ideas.
Leading experts explore how a situated urban contingency approach engages with different planning interventions, ranging from disciplinary identities and everyday practices to digitalisation for citizen engagement, systems of bureaucratic knowledge production and infrastructural doctrines. Chapters delve into case studies such as the development of affordable housing, professional boundary work in integrating climate change adaptation, and the role of urban experimentation in planning for urban sustainability. The book further demonstrates how context-sensitivity fosters creative knowledge production and more inclusive planning, advocating for the integration of best practices with an urban contingency logic.
Students and scholars of planning and related disciplines such as geography, urban studies, sociology and sustainability studies will find this a vital resource. Practitioners working in planning and climate change mitigation will greatly benefit from this informative book.
This insightful book examines the role of an urban contingencies approach in understanding contemporary urban sustainability planning, emphasising the importance of context and place sensitivity and offering a crucial alternative to existing best practice planning ideas.
Recenzijos
Planning for Urban Sustainability offers a powerful critique of global urban solutionism while making a compelling case for urban planning rooted in the specificity of place. Through the lens of doctrines, disciplines, and practices, the book shows how urban sustainability emerges not from copying best practices, but from reconfiguring existing socio-technical arrangements, navigating institutional tensions, and engaging with the everyday. Its commitment to experimentation, improvisation, and learning from within planning culturesrather than outside themmakes this a timely and important contribution for those rethinking the role of planning in the face of climate and social crises. A vital resource for scholars and practitioners committed to situated, just, and context-sensitive urban transitions. -- Sergio Montero, University of Toronto, Canada This book is a valuable contribution to the urban sustainability literature, with nuanced consideration of many examples from Denmark. Analyses of the Finger Plan, social housing, cycling policies, climate adaptation planning, and coastal planning will be useful to both scholars and practitioners. -- Stephen M. Wheeler, University of California, Davis, USA This book is a wakeup call for planners to move away from the impossible dream of ready-made, all-encompassing solutions for urban sustainability. Instead, this book explores urban contingency to understand the place-specific conditions that make possible some courses of action but not others. This book demonstrates the enduring influence of Danish cities on planning as laboratories of urban environmental thought. An enriching read for all urban studies and planning scholars. -- Vanesa Castan Broto, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
Contents
Foreword xi
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 Urban contingencies at work: the influence of planning
doctrines, disciplines and practices on planning for urban
sustainability 2
Daniel Galland, Jens Iuel-Stissing and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
PART II DOCTRINES
2 The Copenhagen Finger Plan: evolution, significance and
contemporary challenges 23
Kristian Olesen and Morten Elle
3 Affordable housing between market and state: the
development of social housing in Denmark 37
Matthew Howells and Kristian Olesen
4 Building place-sensitive perspectives between strategy and
participation: a planning doctrine in the making 51
Carsten Jahn Hansen, Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen, Morten
Elle and Lars Bodum
PART III DISCIPLINES
5 Upsetting transport planning rationalities: understanding
cycling through mobilities 67
Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda, Malene FreudendalPedersen, Morten Elle and
Caroline Samson
6 A disciplinary challenge: integrating climate adaptation and
urban planning professional boundary work in times of
systemic changes 80
Birgitte Hoffmann and Maj-Britt Quitzau
7 The digital transformation of the public sector in Denmark
and its influence on urban planning 95
Lars Bodum, Daniel Galland and Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen
8 Between fragmentation and integration: the transformation of
Danish coastal and maritime governance and planning 111
Carsten Jahn Hansen, Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen and
Matthew Howells
9 Power and knowledge: the legacy of educating professional
planners 127
Enza Lissandrello
PART IV PRACTICES
10 Making the invisible visible: unfolding the temporalities of
planning amidst crises 145
Miriam Holst Jensen, Birgitte Hoffmann and Daniel Galland
11 From planning practice to urban practice: integrating
everyday life in planning for urban sustainability 160
Caroline Samson, Malene Rudolf Lindberg, Malene
Freudendal-Pedersen and Daniel Galland
12 Urban experimentation in Copenhagen: from critical ideal to
planning culture and planning practice 174
Jens Iuel-Stissing, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Daniel
Galland and Emil Hųg
13 Urban experimentation and bureaucratic urban politics in
planning for urban sustainability 187
Ask Greve Johansen, Jens Iuel-Stissing and Daniel Galland
14 Navigating future knowledge 200
Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen
PART V CONCLUSION
15 The value of an urban contingency logic in planning for urban
sustainability 213
Jens Iuel-Stissing, Daniel Galland and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Edited by Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Professor of Urban Planning, Daniel Galland, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Jens Iuel-Stissing, Associate Professor of Sustainable Transitions, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
