Kristina Trygg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Trygg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Trygg |
| SIGNATURE | TRYGG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0121-2729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A ‘congealed’ Swedish planning community? Key constraints to planning zero-carbon cities and regions
Climate change requires us to fundamentally change the way we plan and develop our cities and regions. This raises questions about the role and capacity of spatial planning in general and the agency and expertise of planners in particular. Based on 27 qualitative interviews with Swedish planning professionals, we identify four key constraints: the increasing politicisation and complexity of planning practice, a cultivated practice of bypassing pl…
City street experiment for transformative change - municipal challenges of re-making public spaces
One way to foster innovation in urban settings is through urban experimentation, which involves giving actors the opportunity to try out new solutions. One venue for urban experimentation is city street experiments. City street experiments have emerged as an alternative way to test new solutions that can lead to transformative change. They are also a call for a reprioritization of city street space in favor of more sustainable modes of travel. Sp…
A tale of urban experimentation in three Swedish municipalities
Increasingly, cities and municipalities are involved in urban experimentation to meet current societal challenges.The expectations on local authorities to implement new ways of dealing with current challenges are high and raise questions of municipal capacity and governance structures, challenging more traditional ways of planning and policymaking.In this paper we have analysed three urban experiments related to transport and mobility in three Sw…
Size matters
We analyse the action space for strategic planning and sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities. We use qualitative and quantitative materials from 103 survey responses obtained from Swedish municipal planners. Our analysis shows that the size and type (e.g. population and density) of the municipality where the planners work are connected to their perceived action space, where policies for densely populated cities are le…
CBL and living labs
This article looks at a challenge-based learning (CBL) approach that aims to engage students in sustainable transitions within urban and regional planning. Drawing on CBL, we focus on how living labs – the idea of using a city as a site for user-driven innovation and development – can be used as a site and methodology in education and research on planning for sustainability. The paper presents insight from teaching planning master’s students and …
Planning Education and Transformative Capacity for Climate-Neutral Cities
To achieve their goal to become climate neutral, Swedish municipalities must significantly improve their transformative capacities. Adapting the roles and practices of urban planners is an important element in this process. This paper critically reflects on the way in which improved planning education may help to enable a new generation of planners to face the challenges of rapid urban transformation and provides them with the knowledge and tools…
Strategic spatial planning for sustainable development – Swedish planners’ institutional capacity
This article advocates the need for strategic spatial planning practices to cope with the crises of climate change that confront cities and regions today. Planners face sustainability challenges regarding their ability to plan for the cities of tomorrow. The aim of this article is to analyse how institutional conditions can enable the planners’ strategic spatial planning for sustainable development in Swedish municipalities. We will use instituti…
Decentralised development policy
This article investigates how the international wave of decentralisation of development policy, promoted through ideals of place-based policy, becomes practice through development interventions made by municipalities in Sweden. Based on an extensive empirical study across Swedish municipalities, the article contributes with knowledge about how the decentralisation of development policies is formed through a combination of shared and relatively he…
Work practice among advanced producer service firms – project work in space-time
This article is an explorative investigation of a sample of advanced producer service (APS) companies located in Stockholm (the capital and main urban centre of Sweden). The discussion is centred on aspects of work practice and how this is conditioned by space-time constraints. These space-time constraints refer to coupling, authority and capability constraints which are concepts framed in a time-geography approach. Although time-geography is pri…
New Geographies of Work
This paper describes and analyses the geography of work, i.e., the spatial patterns in where paid work is done. The geography of work may diverge from the geography of employment when paid work is done at the premises of client organizations, during commuting, on business trips, on external meetings, at home or at other places. The particular patterns in the geography of work depend on a number of factors, possibilities and constraints. The paper…
Work practice among advanced producer service firms – project work in space-time
This article is an explorative investigation of a sample of advanced producer service (APS) companies located in Stockholm (the capital and main urban centre of Sweden). The discussion is centred on aspects of work practice and how this is conditioned by space-time constraints. These space-time constraints refer to coupling, authority and capability constraints which are concepts framed in a time-geography approach. Although time-geography is pri…
Decentralised development policy
This article investigates how the international wave of decentralisation of development policy, promoted through ideals of place-based policy, becomes practice through development interventions made by municipalities in Sweden. Based on an extensive empirical study across Swedish municipalities, the article contributes with knowledge about how the decentralisation of development policies is formed through a combination of shared and relatively he…
New Geographies of Work
This paper describes and analyses the geography of work, i.e., the spatial patterns in where paid work is done. The geography of work may diverge from the geography of employment when paid work is done at the premises of client organizations, during commuting, on business trips, on external meetings, at home or at other places. The particular patterns in the geography of work depend on a number of factors, possibilities and constraints. The paper…
Work practice among advanced producer service firms – project work in space-time
This article is an explorative investigation of a sample of advanced producer service (APS) companies located in Stockholm (the capital and main urban centre of Sweden). The discussion is centred on aspects of work practice and how this is conditioned by space-time constraints. These space-time constraints refer to coupling, authority and capability constraints which are concepts framed in a time-geography approach. Although time-geography is pri…
Decentralised development policy
This article investigates how the international wave of decentralisation of development policy, promoted through ideals of place-based policy, becomes practice through development interventions made by municipalities in Sweden. Based on an extensive empirical study across Swedish municipalities, the article contributes with knowledge about how the decentralisation of development policies is formed through a combination of shared and relatively he…
Strategic spatial planning for sustainable development – Swedish planners’ institutional capacity
This article advocates the need for strategic spatial planning practices to cope with the crises of climate change that confront cities and regions today. Planners face sustainability challenges regarding their ability to plan for the cities of tomorrow. The aim of this article is to analyse how institutional conditions can enable the planners’ strategic spatial planning for sustainable development in Swedish municipalities. We will use instituti…
Planning Education and Transformative Capacity for Climate-Neutral Cities
To achieve their goal to become climate neutral, Swedish municipalities must significantly improve their transformative capacities. Adapting the roles and practices of urban planners is an important element in this process. This paper critically reflects on the way in which improved planning education may help to enable a new generation of planners to face the challenges of rapid urban transformation and provides them with the knowledge and tools…
A tale of urban experimentation in three Swedish municipalities
Increasingly, cities and municipalities are involved in urban experimentation to meet current societal challenges.The expectations on local authorities to implement new ways of dealing with current challenges are high and raise questions of municipal capacity and governance structures, challenging more traditional ways of planning and policymaking.In this paper we have analysed three urban experiments related to transport and mobility in three Sw…
Size matters
We analyse the action space for strategic planning and sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities. We use qualitative and quantitative materials from 103 survey responses obtained from Swedish municipal planners. Our analysis shows that the size and type (e.g. population and density) of the municipality where the planners work are connected to their perceived action space, where policies for densely populated cities are le…
CBL and living labs
This article looks at a challenge-based learning (CBL) approach that aims to engage students in sustainable transitions within urban and regional planning. Drawing on CBL, we focus on how living labs – the idea of using a city as a site for user-driven innovation and development – can be used as a site and methodology in education and research on planning for sustainability. The paper presents insight from teaching planning master’s students and …
A ‘congealed’ Swedish planning community? Key constraints to planning zero-carbon cities and regions
Climate change requires us to fundamentally change the way we plan and develop our cities and regions. This raises questions about the role and capacity of spatial planning in general and the agency and expertise of planners in particular. Based on 27 qualitative interviews with Swedish planning professionals, we identify four key constraints: the increasing politicisation and complexity of planning practice, a cultivated practice of bypassing pl…
City street experiment for transformative change - municipal challenges of re-making public spaces
One way to foster innovation in urban settings is through urban experimentation, which involves giving actors the opportunity to try out new solutions. One venue for urban experimentation is city street experiments. City street experiments have emerged as an alternative way to test new solutions that can lead to transformative change. They are also a call for a reprioritization of city street space in favor of more sustainable modes of travel. Sp…
Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)