This study explored how Swedish comprehensive plans formulated visions about planning for the needs of people and how Swedish urban planners interpret those visions into implementations in detailed development plans. The aim was to examine how visions in comprehensive plans address how to plan for the needs of a diverse society and how visions were translated into implementation by planners in Swedish municipalities. The research questions were: How is planning for people with different needs incorporated in the comprehensive plans and how are the visions in the comprehensive plans implemented by urban planners in the detailed development plans? The background was that Motala municipality, which this study was in collaboration with, expressed difficulties in planning with an intersectional perspective. The focus become on the language used in visions of planning for different needs and how the language usage was interpreted by urban planners. The methods used was a discourse analysis called “what’s the problem represented to be”, WPR, developed by Carol Bacchi. In addition, thematic analysis of interviews with urban planners were conducted. The main results from the WPR analysis showed that comprehensive plans were vague in their description of how to plan for people with different needs and that intersectionality was described but the term was not used. The interviews provided with an explanation of why the formulations are vague in the first place, with flexibility being described as underlining why the visions was vague. Yet, vagueness was expressed as being problematic since it opened the visions for interpretation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-205063 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Rehus, Philip |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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