Mattias Qviström
Biographic Data
| ID | 1521822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mattias Qviström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mattias |
| FAMILY NAME | Qviström |
| SIGNATURE | QVISTRÖM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6070-1744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Decentring landscape: Rethinking landscape analysis with a relational ontology
Landscape theory has frequently been used as a base for scrutinising landscape characterisation and landscape analysis. However, this paper argues that if we aim to understand action-oriented methods for landscape analysis, then landscape needs to be decentred in favour of studies of the enactment of the landscape-project interplay. Relational ontology offers a fruitful ground for such examinations. Following a conceptual discussion, the paper dr…
Introduction to the Special Section: Recreational mobilities in (and beyond) the compact city
What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hop…
Negotiating the city during the dark season: A Study of Recreational Running
Seasonality plays an important role in determining how and where everyday activities are conducted. Yet how seasonality shapes recreational mobilities in the city, and how it matters for everyday urban life, remain largely unexplored. Inspired by recent research on the weather as lived, this paper contributes to the understanding of urban recreational mobilities as shaped by runners negotiating the urban environment and its seasonality. Thereby, …
Situating the silence of recreation in transit-oriented development
Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a prominent planning model that connects sustainable mobilities with land use. While this interface is crucial for sustainable development, it also requires, we argue, that all typesof mobilities are considered. Therefore, this paper scrutinises how recreation and its mobilities have been studied within academic TOD literature. The review reveals a small number of studies of recreation, and by paying attentio…
Negotiating asymmetric borders in an emerging soft region
In contemporary planning, the development of soft regions through inter-municipal collaborations plays an increasingly important role. However, as previous research has shown, local borders and local jurisdiction are likely to remain as part and parcel of the new region. This paper argues the need to consider the geography of such local borders, to reveal asymmetries which could weaken the opportunities for inter-municipal collaboration. Followin…
Revisiting the green geographies of welfare planning: An introduction
The history and legacy of green planning of the welfare era have largely been overlooked within research, or critiqued due to its limited urban qualities and poor design. This omission has left its role in the development of the Welfare society largely unexplored. Therefore, this special issue revisits the green geographies of welfare planning, to reveal its importance as a matter of welfare and as a set of geographies that goes beyond the contem…
Finding the pulse of the welfare landscape: Reframing green space provision in modernist planning
Contemporary planning for urban densification permits the exploitation of the spacious green areas developed for recreation during the welfare planning of the 1960s–70s. Historical studies of welfare planning are needed to better understand the potential values under threat. Answering Colin McFarlane’s call for relational studies of density, this paper offers a complementary examination of the relational geography of green space provision in the …
The patchwork planning of a welfare landscape: Reappraising the role of leisure planning in the Swedish welfare state
The public memory of the social democratic welfare state in Sweden often emphasizes housing, but in fact post-war planning was far more diverse. One asset which postwar planning developed over time was a landscape that materialized a range of different concerns over welfare. Even today, the impressive investments in recreational facilities and green spaces made during the high point of welfarist planning in Sweden still provides the backbone of S…
In search of the landscape theory of Torsten Hägerstrand
Hagerstrand is one of the internationally most well-known Nordic social scientists of the twentieth century and has greatly influenced the development of a broad range of research areas, such as in
Differentiating the time-geography of recreational running
This paper proposes a relational time-geography approach to differentiate the geographies of recreational activities, whose place cannot be pinned down to a single specific infrastructure or area and therefore risks being marginalised in planning. Running is used as a case study. Based on diary-interviews, we have identified three different exercises/places used alternately by the respondents: the forest run; ‘the most boring route in the world’;…
Beyond Circular Thinking: Geographies of Transit‐Oriented Development
Transit‐oriented development (TOD) plays a significant role within contemporary planning policies for ‘smart growth’ and sustainable development, particularly in Europe and North America. As a well‐rehearsed practice, this planning model is due for critical assessment and improvement in terms of its ability to incorporate dynamic and heterogeneous socio‐spatial processes as matters of concern. Analyses of the conditions for ‘making TOD work’ in t…
Farming ruins: A landscape study of incremental urbanisation
This study demonstrates a need for landscape studies of urbanisation in which the slow process of ruination and reuse is considered. The paper argues that a focus on maintenance and repair facilitate symmetrical studies in which the dismantling of former uses and the establishment of new activities and regulations are examined as an incremental process. This is illustrated here using the case study of a contested development project at the fringe…
Competing geographies of recreational running: The case of the “jogging wave” in Sweden in the late 1970s
Recreational running encompasses more than one type of exercise. Different running practices offer different, even opposing, conceptualisations of the role of the environment. As illustrated in this paper, historical studies can uncover and explain these variations. By studying the clash between two practices in Sweden in the 1970s - the newly translated idea of North American jogging and an already established tradition of fitness running - this…
Landscape histories of urbanisation
Over the years, numerous landscape studies have described the impacts of urbanisation, such as fragmentation of habitats, loss of farmland and loss of historical connections and previously coherent
Part-time amenity migrants: Revealing the importance of second homes for senior residents in a transit-oriented development
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been proposed as a model for sustainable urban and regional development beyond the troubled heritage of modernistic planning. Key to TOD is mixed use and reduced dependence on private cars. However, functionalistic land-use divides persist in the principles of TOD, such as the division between leisure and work and between permanent residences and second homes. These divides relate to, and are emphasised by, …
Forty years of Landscape Research
Papers of four decades published in Landscape Research are reviewed in order to chronicle the journal’s development and to assess the academic performance of the journal relative to its own aims. Landscape Research intends to reach a wide audience, to have a broad thematic coverage and to publish different types of papers with various methodological orientations. Cutting across these first aims are the interdisciplinary ambition of the journal, a…
Landscape research in Landscape Research: Reflections on a changing field
This special issue celebrates forty years of Landscape Research, with papers by distinguished scholars commenting on a changing field. There are plenty of reasons to use the anniversary to reflect
Putting accessibility in place: A relational reading of accessibility in policies for transit-oriented development
Landscapes with a Heartbeat: Tracing a Portable Landscape for Jogging in Sweden (1958-1971)
This paper traces the origins, marketing, and proliferation of a model facility for fitness running in Sweden (1958-71) in order to reveal the history of a mundane infrastructure of the modern Swedish town. In the process, it explores the possibility of following portable landscapes in order to provide richer stories on urbanisation. The paper first introduces an internationally renowned team in exercise physiology, together with how this team ma…
Spatial Order, Scenic Landscapes and Sprawl: Peri-urban Studies at the Interface between Landscape and Planning History
Hybrid landscapes at the urban edge have been regarded as an intractable problem within modern planning for more than a century (Qvistrom, in press). An early commentary on urban sprawl by Benton MacKaye depicts urban edge landscapes as ‘‘not city, not country, but wilderness—the wilderness not of an integrated ordered nature, but of a standardized, unordered civilization’’ (1928, p. 160). As Vicenzotti and Trepl (2009) and De Block (2011) illust…
Contested Landscapes of Urban Sprawl: Landscape Protection and Regional Planning in Scania, Sweden, 1932–1947
Studies in landscape and planning history are used here in order to critically examine the debate on urban sprawl and to reveal embedded conflicts within spatial planning aiming to curb sprawl. The paper aims to illustrate this with an examination of one of the earliest attempts to control peri-urban development at a regional level in Sweden. The discourse on sprawl is first introduced and the fruitfulness of landscape studies in capturing inhere…
Network Ruins and Green Structure Development: An Attempt to Trace Relational Spaces of a Railway Ruin
In recent years, ruins have come to be regarded as an asset for the revitalization of urban nature, facilitating a critique of the nature–culture divide embedded in the fabric of contemporary cities and modern planning. This paper therefore argues for investigations of relational spaces of industrial ruins in order to capture their potential within green structure planning. The breakdown of the former order and the establishment of new heterogene…
Shadows of planning: On landscape/planning history and inherited landscape ambiguities at the urban fringe
The history of vernacular landscapes at the urban fringe is poorly studied, limiting our understanding of the contemporary character of the fringe and our knowledge of the urbanization process. This article argues the necessity of a combined analysis of the legacies of planning and the footprints of former landscape ideals in order to understand the conditions for spatial planning at the urban fringe. After first introducing the methodological us…
Landscapes out of order: Studying the inner urban fringe beyond the rural – urban divide
Contemporary accounts of the inner urban fringe tend to focus on the transition from rural to urban land use and rural–urban conflicts, rather than highlighting the landscape at the city edge in its own right. It is argued in this paper that such dichotomous accounts neglect the complexity, values and conflicts of fringe landscapes. The study illustrates that an investigation into the relationship between attempts within spatial planning to desig…
Exploring landscape dynamics at the edge of the city: Spatial plans and everyday places at the inner urban fringe of Malmö, Sweden
Landscapes at the edge of the city comprise vast areas that ‘lie fallow’, awaiting future urban development. During this time new landscape values evolve. It is argued that the complexity of urban fringe landscapes is not adequately considered either within landscape research or in the practice of spatial planning. A key to understanding landscapes at the inner urban fringe is to focus on landscape dynamics, and on the interactions between spatia…
Landscapes out of order: Studying the inner urban fringe beyond the rural – urban divide
Contemporary accounts of the inner urban fringe tend to focus on the transition from rural to urban land use and rural–urban conflicts, rather than highlighting the landscape at the city edge in its own right. It is argued in this paper that such dichotomous accounts neglect the complexity, values and conflicts of fringe landscapes. The study illustrates that an investigation into the relationship between attempts within spatial planning to desig…
Forty years of Landscape Research
Papers of four decades published in Landscape Research are reviewed in order to chronicle the journal’s development and to assess the academic performance of the journal relative to its own aims. Landscape Research intends to reach a wide audience, to have a broad thematic coverage and to publish different types of papers with various methodological orientations. Cutting across these first aims are the interdisciplinary ambition of the journal, a…
Putting accessibility in place: A relational reading of accessibility in policies for transit-oriented development
Landscapes with a Heartbeat: Tracing a Portable Landscape for Jogging in Sweden (1958-1971)
This paper traces the origins, marketing, and proliferation of a model facility for fitness running in Sweden (1958-71) in order to reveal the history of a mundane infrastructure of the modern Swedish town. In the process, it explores the possibility of following portable landscapes in order to provide richer stories on urbanisation. The paper first introduces an internationally renowned team in exercise physiology, together with how this team ma…
Network Ruins and Green Structure Development: An Attempt to Trace Relational Spaces of a Railway Ruin
In recent years, ruins have come to be regarded as an asset for the revitalization of urban nature, facilitating a critique of the nature–culture divide embedded in the fabric of contemporary cities and modern planning. This paper therefore argues for investigations of relational spaces of industrial ruins in order to capture their potential within green structure planning. The breakdown of the former order and the establishment of new heterogene…
Shadows of planning: On landscape/planning history and inherited landscape ambiguities at the urban fringe
The history of vernacular landscapes at the urban fringe is poorly studied, limiting our understanding of the contemporary character of the fringe and our knowledge of the urbanization process. This article argues the necessity of a combined analysis of the legacies of planning and the footprints of former landscape ideals in order to understand the conditions for spatial planning at the urban fringe. After first introducing the methodological us…
Differentiating the time-geography of recreational running
This paper proposes a relational time-geography approach to differentiate the geographies of recreational activities, whose place cannot be pinned down to a single specific infrastructure or area and therefore risks being marginalised in planning. Running is used as a case study. Based on diary-interviews, we have identified three different exercises/places used alternately by the respondents: the forest run; ‘the most boring route in the world’;…
Competing geographies of recreational running: The case of the “jogging wave” in Sweden in the late 1970s
Recreational running encompasses more than one type of exercise. Different running practices offer different, even opposing, conceptualisations of the role of the environment. As illustrated in this paper, historical studies can uncover and explain these variations. By studying the clash between two practices in Sweden in the 1970s - the newly translated idea of North American jogging and an already established tradition of fitness running - this…
Beyond Circular Thinking: Geographies of Transit‐Oriented Development
Transit‐oriented development (TOD) plays a significant role within contemporary planning policies for ‘smart growth’ and sustainable development, particularly in Europe and North America. As a well‐rehearsed practice, this planning model is due for critical assessment and improvement in terms of its ability to incorporate dynamic and heterogeneous socio‐spatial processes as matters of concern. Analyses of the conditions for ‘making TOD work’ in t…
Exploring landscape dynamics at the edge of the city: Spatial plans and everyday places at the inner urban fringe of Malmö, Sweden
Landscapes at the edge of the city comprise vast areas that ‘lie fallow’, awaiting future urban development. During this time new landscape values evolve. It is argued that the complexity of urban fringe landscapes is not adequately considered either within landscape research or in the practice of spatial planning. A key to understanding landscapes at the inner urban fringe is to focus on landscape dynamics, and on the interactions between spatia…
Finding the pulse of the welfare landscape: Reframing green space provision in modernist planning
Contemporary planning for urban densification permits the exploitation of the spacious green areas developed for recreation during the welfare planning of the 1960s–70s. Historical studies of welfare planning are needed to better understand the potential values under threat. Answering Colin McFarlane’s call for relational studies of density, this paper offers a complementary examination of the relational geography of green space provision in the …
Contested Landscapes of Urban Sprawl: Landscape Protection and Regional Planning in Scania, Sweden, 1932–1947
Studies in landscape and planning history are used here in order to critically examine the debate on urban sprawl and to reveal embedded conflicts within spatial planning aiming to curb sprawl. The paper aims to illustrate this with an examination of one of the earliest attempts to control peri-urban development at a regional level in Sweden. The discourse on sprawl is first introduced and the fruitfulness of landscape studies in capturing inhere…
Decentring landscape: Rethinking landscape analysis with a relational ontology
Landscape theory has frequently been used as a base for scrutinising landscape characterisation and landscape analysis. However, this paper argues that if we aim to understand action-oriented methods for landscape analysis, then landscape needs to be decentred in favour of studies of the enactment of the landscape-project interplay. Relational ontology offers a fruitful ground for such examinations. Following a conceptual discussion, the paper dr…
Introduction to the Special Section: Recreational mobilities in (and beyond) the compact city
What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hop…
Landscape histories of urbanisation
Over the years, numerous landscape studies have described the impacts of urbanisation, such as fragmentation of habitats, loss of farmland and loss of historical connections and previously coherent
Part-time amenity migrants: Revealing the importance of second homes for senior residents in a transit-oriented development
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been proposed as a model for sustainable urban and regional development beyond the troubled heritage of modernistic planning. Key to TOD is mixed use and reduced dependence on private cars. However, functionalistic land-use divides persist in the principles of TOD, such as the division between leisure and work and between permanent residences and second homes. These divides relate to, and are emphasised by, …
Negotiating the city during the dark season: A Study of Recreational Running
Seasonality plays an important role in determining how and where everyday activities are conducted. Yet how seasonality shapes recreational mobilities in the city, and how it matters for everyday urban life, remain largely unexplored. Inspired by recent research on the weather as lived, this paper contributes to the understanding of urban recreational mobilities as shaped by runners negotiating the urban environment and its seasonality. Thereby, …
Farming ruins: A landscape study of incremental urbanisation
This study demonstrates a need for landscape studies of urbanisation in which the slow process of ruination and reuse is considered. The paper argues that a focus on maintenance and repair facilitate symmetrical studies in which the dismantling of former uses and the establishment of new activities and regulations are examined as an incremental process. This is illustrated here using the case study of a contested development project at the fringe…
Landscape research in Landscape Research: Reflections on a changing field
This special issue celebrates forty years of Landscape Research, with papers by distinguished scholars commenting on a changing field. There are plenty of reasons to use the anniversary to reflect
Spatial Order, Scenic Landscapes and Sprawl: Peri-urban Studies at the Interface between Landscape and Planning History
Hybrid landscapes at the urban edge have been regarded as an intractable problem within modern planning for more than a century (Qvistrom, in press). An early commentary on urban sprawl by Benton MacKaye depicts urban edge landscapes as ‘‘not city, not country, but wilderness—the wilderness not of an integrated ordered nature, but of a standardized, unordered civilization’’ (1928, p. 160). As Vicenzotti and Trepl (2009) and De Block (2011) illust…
Exploring landscape dynamics at the edge of the city: Spatial plans and everyday places at the inner urban fringe of Malmö, Sweden
Landscapes at the edge of the city comprise vast areas that ‘lie fallow’, awaiting future urban development. During this time new landscape values evolve. It is argued that the complexity of urban fringe landscapes is not adequately considered either within landscape research or in the practice of spatial planning. A key to understanding landscapes at the inner urban fringe is to focus on landscape dynamics, and on the interactions between spatia…
Landscapes out of order: Studying the inner urban fringe beyond the rural – urban divide
Contemporary accounts of the inner urban fringe tend to focus on the transition from rural to urban land use and rural–urban conflicts, rather than highlighting the landscape at the city edge in its own right. It is argued in this paper that such dichotomous accounts neglect the complexity, values and conflicts of fringe landscapes. The study illustrates that an investigation into the relationship between attempts within spatial planning to desig…
Shadows of planning: On landscape/planning history and inherited landscape ambiguities at the urban fringe
The history of vernacular landscapes at the urban fringe is poorly studied, limiting our understanding of the contemporary character of the fringe and our knowledge of the urbanization process. This article argues the necessity of a combined analysis of the legacies of planning and the footprints of former landscape ideals in order to understand the conditions for spatial planning at the urban fringe. After first introducing the methodological us…
Network Ruins and Green Structure Development: An Attempt to Trace Relational Spaces of a Railway Ruin
In recent years, ruins have come to be regarded as an asset for the revitalization of urban nature, facilitating a critique of the nature–culture divide embedded in the fabric of contemporary cities and modern planning. This paper therefore argues for investigations of relational spaces of industrial ruins in order to capture their potential within green structure planning. The breakdown of the former order and the establishment of new heterogene…
Spatial Order, Scenic Landscapes and Sprawl: Peri-urban Studies at the Interface between Landscape and Planning History
Hybrid landscapes at the urban edge have been regarded as an intractable problem within modern planning for more than a century (Qvistrom, in press). An early commentary on urban sprawl by Benton MacKaye depicts urban edge landscapes as ‘‘not city, not country, but wilderness—the wilderness not of an integrated ordered nature, but of a standardized, unordered civilization’’ (1928, p. 160). As Vicenzotti and Trepl (2009) and De Block (2011) illust…
Contested Landscapes of Urban Sprawl: Landscape Protection and Regional Planning in Scania, Sweden, 1932–1947
Studies in landscape and planning history are used here in order to critically examine the debate on urban sprawl and to reveal embedded conflicts within spatial planning aiming to curb sprawl. The paper aims to illustrate this with an examination of one of the earliest attempts to control peri-urban development at a regional level in Sweden. The discourse on sprawl is first introduced and the fruitfulness of landscape studies in capturing inhere…
Landscapes with a Heartbeat: Tracing a Portable Landscape for Jogging in Sweden (1958-1971)
This paper traces the origins, marketing, and proliferation of a model facility for fitness running in Sweden (1958-71) in order to reveal the history of a mundane infrastructure of the modern Swedish town. In the process, it explores the possibility of following portable landscapes in order to provide richer stories on urbanisation. The paper first introduces an internationally renowned team in exercise physiology, together with how this team ma…
Putting accessibility in place: A relational reading of accessibility in policies for transit-oriented development
Part-time amenity migrants: Revealing the importance of second homes for senior residents in a transit-oriented development
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been proposed as a model for sustainable urban and regional development beyond the troubled heritage of modernistic planning. Key to TOD is mixed use and reduced dependence on private cars. However, functionalistic land-use divides persist in the principles of TOD, such as the division between leisure and work and between permanent residences and second homes. These divides relate to, and are emphasised by, …
Forty years of Landscape Research
Papers of four decades published in Landscape Research are reviewed in order to chronicle the journal’s development and to assess the academic performance of the journal relative to its own aims. Landscape Research intends to reach a wide audience, to have a broad thematic coverage and to publish different types of papers with various methodological orientations. Cutting across these first aims are the interdisciplinary ambition of the journal, a…
Landscape research in Landscape Research: Reflections on a changing field
This special issue celebrates forty years of Landscape Research, with papers by distinguished scholars commenting on a changing field. There are plenty of reasons to use the anniversary to reflect
Competing geographies of recreational running: The case of the “jogging wave” in Sweden in the late 1970s
Recreational running encompasses more than one type of exercise. Different running practices offer different, even opposing, conceptualisations of the role of the environment. As illustrated in this paper, historical studies can uncover and explain these variations. By studying the clash between two practices in Sweden in the 1970s - the newly translated idea of North American jogging and an already established tradition of fitness running - this…
Landscape histories of urbanisation
Over the years, numerous landscape studies have described the impacts of urbanisation, such as fragmentation of habitats, loss of farmland and loss of historical connections and previously coherent
Farming ruins: A landscape study of incremental urbanisation
This study demonstrates a need for landscape studies of urbanisation in which the slow process of ruination and reuse is considered. The paper argues that a focus on maintenance and repair facilitate symmetrical studies in which the dismantling of former uses and the establishment of new activities and regulations are examined as an incremental process. This is illustrated here using the case study of a contested development project at the fringe…
Beyond Circular Thinking: Geographies of Transit‐Oriented Development
Transit‐oriented development (TOD) plays a significant role within contemporary planning policies for ‘smart growth’ and sustainable development, particularly in Europe and North America. As a well‐rehearsed practice, this planning model is due for critical assessment and improvement in terms of its ability to incorporate dynamic and heterogeneous socio‐spatial processes as matters of concern. Analyses of the conditions for ‘making TOD work’ in t…
In search of the landscape theory of Torsten Hägerstrand
Hagerstrand is one of the internationally most well-known Nordic social scientists of the twentieth century and has greatly influenced the development of a broad range of research areas, such as in
Differentiating the time-geography of recreational running
This paper proposes a relational time-geography approach to differentiate the geographies of recreational activities, whose place cannot be pinned down to a single specific infrastructure or area and therefore risks being marginalised in planning. Running is used as a case study. Based on diary-interviews, we have identified three different exercises/places used alternately by the respondents: the forest run; ‘the most boring route in the world’;…
The patchwork planning of a welfare landscape: Reappraising the role of leisure planning in the Swedish welfare state
The public memory of the social democratic welfare state in Sweden often emphasizes housing, but in fact post-war planning was far more diverse. One asset which postwar planning developed over time was a landscape that materialized a range of different concerns over welfare. Even today, the impressive investments in recreational facilities and green spaces made during the high point of welfarist planning in Sweden still provides the backbone of S…
Situating the silence of recreation in transit-oriented development
Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a prominent planning model that connects sustainable mobilities with land use. While this interface is crucial for sustainable development, it also requires, we argue, that all typesof mobilities are considered. Therefore, this paper scrutinises how recreation and its mobilities have been studied within academic TOD literature. The review reveals a small number of studies of recreation, and by paying attentio…
Negotiating asymmetric borders in an emerging soft region
In contemporary planning, the development of soft regions through inter-municipal collaborations plays an increasingly important role. However, as previous research has shown, local borders and local jurisdiction are likely to remain as part and parcel of the new region. This paper argues the need to consider the geography of such local borders, to reveal asymmetries which could weaken the opportunities for inter-municipal collaboration. Followin…
Revisiting the green geographies of welfare planning: An introduction
The history and legacy of green planning of the welfare era have largely been overlooked within research, or critiqued due to its limited urban qualities and poor design. This omission has left its role in the development of the Welfare society largely unexplored. Therefore, this special issue revisits the green geographies of welfare planning, to reveal its importance as a matter of welfare and as a set of geographies that goes beyond the contem…
Finding the pulse of the welfare landscape: Reframing green space provision in modernist planning
Contemporary planning for urban densification permits the exploitation of the spacious green areas developed for recreation during the welfare planning of the 1960s–70s. Historical studies of welfare planning are needed to better understand the potential values under threat. Answering Colin McFarlane’s call for relational studies of density, this paper offers a complementary examination of the relational geography of green space provision in the …
Decentring landscape: Rethinking landscape analysis with a relational ontology
Landscape theory has frequently been used as a base for scrutinising landscape characterisation and landscape analysis. However, this paper argues that if we aim to understand action-oriented methods for landscape analysis, then landscape needs to be decentred in favour of studies of the enactment of the landscape-project interplay. Relational ontology offers a fruitful ground for such examinations. Following a conceptual discussion, the paper dr…
Introduction to the Special Section: Recreational mobilities in (and beyond) the compact city
What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hop…
Negotiating the city during the dark season: A Study of Recreational Running
Seasonality plays an important role in determining how and where everyday activities are conducted. Yet how seasonality shapes recreational mobilities in the city, and how it matters for everyday urban life, remain largely unexplored. Inspired by recent research on the weather as lived, this paper contributes to the understanding of urban recreational mobilities as shaped by runners negotiating the urban environment and its seasonality. Thereby, …
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