Markus Laine
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4408800 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Markus Laine |
| PRENOMES | Markus |
| SOBRENOME | Laine |
| ASSINATURA | LAINE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6541-7953 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Saving the “lungs of the city”
We have long witnessed conservation movements emerging in tandem with industrial expansion and urbanisation, but such impetus took a new turn in the 1960s and 1970s with the global birth of a new kind of urban environmental policy. In this comparative case study, we provide a close examination of two urban movements at the forefront of a new era of environmentalism, movements that bore lasting environmental policy agendas in their respective citi…
Governing circular cities
This article discusses innovative ways of governing cities in the interest of promoting the circular economy. We focus on identifying the role of resources, expertise and commitment of local construction businesses in the pursuit of urban circularity, institutional logics utilized in urban planning processes, stakeholder perspectives on innovative practices and the identification of leverage points in the innovative plot handover process in terms…
Selective Precision
Publisher Copyright: © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Increasing civic resilience in urban living labs
When pursuing change through urban living labs (ULLs), local authorities encounter a dual imperative: they must act as drivers of change while remaining open to adaptation themselves. Navigating this tension requires a range of context-connecting practices among stakeholders. These dynamic interactions between citizens and city authorities are investigated in the transformation of an industrial area into a sustainable urban district, thereby fore…
Eco-gentrification in a Welfare State
In Nordic welfare states, progressive planning and housing policies have prevented the most severe forms of gentrification-led displacement. In this paper, we argue that eco-gentrification as a phenomenon is entering the Nordic countries. We illustrate this with a case study of the fast-growing, medium-sized Finnish city of Tampere, where the transformation of a former welfare city into a “sustainable city” is creating unintended gentrification. …
Advancing residents’ use of shared spaces in Nordic superblocks with intelligent technologies
To support the sustainability of future cities, residents’ living spaces need to be built and used efficiently, while supporting residents’ communal wellbeing. Nordic superblock is a new planning, housing, and living concept in which residents of a neighborhood—a combination of city blocks—share yards, common spaces and utilities. Sharing living spaces is an essential element of this approach. In this study, our goal was to study the ways in whic…
Heating up the sauna
One of the main criticisms of participatory planning is its tendency to produce mediocre outcomes due to the compromises made in the search for consensus. As a remedy, there have been recent proposals to enrich participatory processes with stronger visionary leadership. We want to broaden this debate by highlighting the relationship between successful leaderless self-organisation and more conventional forms of participation. We argue that althoug…
Crafting a planning issue with citizens in the context of planning competition
This paper describes the formation of the planning issue ‘Nordic Superblock’ through the early planning phase of the Hiedanranta area in Tampere, Finland. The workshops with citizens and professionals as participants, held after a planning competition, were an important part of the area’s initial planning. The paper argues that the superblock issue emerged because the institutional context differed from the traditional zoning process. Furthermore…
‘A great [Nordic] city is full of stories!’ Persuasive techniques in urban development videos
Literature on planning as storytelling says little about the techniques of this persuasive practice. An analysis of six urban development videos in three Nordic cities clarifies how futures are envisioned and audiences seduced in the visual digital era. Variables related to space, time, and power demonstrate how meaning is created, the positive is accentuated, and hierarchies are established between places and groups of people. The discussion add…
City as a Growth Platform
The aim of this article is to shed light on how ongoing structural change towards the global digital economy condition urban economic development. Discussion starts with a brief reference to the growth machine thesis and its emphasis on the interests of local land and real estate owners. This theory serves as a contrasting point for the second element of our framework, the platform economy, which brings digital platforms and the transnational cap…
Elements of desirability
The need for more dweller-oriented approaches to the development of residential environments is widely agreed upon. In the theoretical discussion, the concept of affordances has been seen as promising in grasping the desirable dwelling features and how they become meaningful in everyday uses. However, the concept has been used surprisingly little in empirical housing studies. This article introduces an inventive method to study affordances and co…
Bricolage in Collaborative Housing in Finland
Finnish collaborative housing projects are in an experimental stage. These projects are trying to push the conventional practices of housing production into a new shape in order to realize their schemes in the housing market dominated by large construction companies. This paper aims to shed light on the resident groups’ resources in a context where resident-driven projects are rare. We apply the concept of bricolage to analyse three collaborative…
Building Citizens’ Trust in Urban Infill
Urban infill is a topical issue for the growing cities in the Nordic countries. In Finland, many suitable infill sites are owned by resident-owned housing companies, and thus a successful infill process requires reconfiguration of the planning and participation practices. In this paper, we forward a dynamic approach to trust as a fruitful conceptualization of actor relationships. Building on Malcolm Tait’s typology of trust and drawing on Bourdie…
Do matters of concern matter? Bringing issues back to participation
The objective of our article is twofold. First, we claim that the theoretical planning discussion dealing with public participation has forgotten one basic principle, namely that the people are taking part in the planning process because they are interested in a particular issue. There is a need for new conceptual approaches in participatory research which carry the discussion first towards the issues, then to the structures of participation. For…
Do matters of concern matter? Bringing issues back to participation
The objective of our article is twofold. First, we claim that the theoretical planning discussion dealing with public participation has forgotten one basic principle, namely that the people are taking part in the planning process because they are interested in a particular issue. There is a need for new conceptual approaches in participatory research which carry the discussion first towards the issues, then to the structures of participation. For…
Elements of desirability
The need for more dweller-oriented approaches to the development of residential environments is widely agreed upon. In the theoretical discussion, the concept of affordances has been seen as promising in grasping the desirable dwelling features and how they become meaningful in everyday uses. However, the concept has been used surprisingly little in empirical housing studies. This article introduces an inventive method to study affordances and co…
Eco-gentrification in a Welfare State
In Nordic welfare states, progressive planning and housing policies have prevented the most severe forms of gentrification-led displacement. In this paper, we argue that eco-gentrification as a phenomenon is entering the Nordic countries. We illustrate this with a case study of the fast-growing, medium-sized Finnish city of Tampere, where the transformation of a former welfare city into a “sustainable city” is creating unintended gentrification. …
City as a Growth Platform
The aim of this article is to shed light on how ongoing structural change towards the global digital economy condition urban economic development. Discussion starts with a brief reference to the growth machine thesis and its emphasis on the interests of local land and real estate owners. This theory serves as a contrasting point for the second element of our framework, the platform economy, which brings digital platforms and the transnational cap…
Bricolage in Collaborative Housing in Finland
Finnish collaborative housing projects are in an experimental stage. These projects are trying to push the conventional practices of housing production into a new shape in order to realize their schemes in the housing market dominated by large construction companies. This paper aims to shed light on the resident groups’ resources in a context where resident-driven projects are rare. We apply the concept of bricolage to analyse three collaborative…
Building Citizens’ Trust in Urban Infill
Urban infill is a topical issue for the growing cities in the Nordic countries. In Finland, many suitable infill sites are owned by resident-owned housing companies, and thus a successful infill process requires reconfiguration of the planning and participation practices. In this paper, we forward a dynamic approach to trust as a fruitful conceptualization of actor relationships. Building on Malcolm Tait’s typology of trust and drawing on Bourdie…
Do matters of concern matter? Bringing issues back to participation
The objective of our article is twofold. First, we claim that the theoretical planning discussion dealing with public participation has forgotten one basic principle, namely that the people are taking part in the planning process because they are interested in a particular issue. There is a need for new conceptual approaches in participatory research which carry the discussion first towards the issues, then to the structures of participation. For…
Bricolage in Collaborative Housing in Finland
Finnish collaborative housing projects are in an experimental stage. These projects are trying to push the conventional practices of housing production into a new shape in order to realize their schemes in the housing market dominated by large construction companies. This paper aims to shed light on the resident groups’ resources in a context where resident-driven projects are rare. We apply the concept of bricolage to analyse three collaborative…
Building Citizens’ Trust in Urban Infill
Urban infill is a topical issue for the growing cities in the Nordic countries. In Finland, many suitable infill sites are owned by resident-owned housing companies, and thus a successful infill process requires reconfiguration of the planning and participation practices. In this paper, we forward a dynamic approach to trust as a fruitful conceptualization of actor relationships. Building on Malcolm Tait’s typology of trust and drawing on Bourdie…
City as a Growth Platform
The aim of this article is to shed light on how ongoing structural change towards the global digital economy condition urban economic development. Discussion starts with a brief reference to the growth machine thesis and its emphasis on the interests of local land and real estate owners. This theory serves as a contrasting point for the second element of our framework, the platform economy, which brings digital platforms and the transnational cap…
Elements of desirability
The need for more dweller-oriented approaches to the development of residential environments is widely agreed upon. In the theoretical discussion, the concept of affordances has been seen as promising in grasping the desirable dwelling features and how they become meaningful in everyday uses. However, the concept has been used surprisingly little in empirical housing studies. This article introduces an inventive method to study affordances and co…
Crafting a planning issue with citizens in the context of planning competition
This paper describes the formation of the planning issue ‘Nordic Superblock’ through the early planning phase of the Hiedanranta area in Tampere, Finland. The workshops with citizens and professionals as participants, held after a planning competition, were an important part of the area’s initial planning. The paper argues that the superblock issue emerged because the institutional context differed from the traditional zoning process. Furthermore…
‘A great [Nordic] city is full of stories!’ Persuasive techniques in urban development videos
Literature on planning as storytelling says little about the techniques of this persuasive practice. An analysis of six urban development videos in three Nordic cities clarifies how futures are envisioned and audiences seduced in the visual digital era. Variables related to space, time, and power demonstrate how meaning is created, the positive is accentuated, and hierarchies are established between places and groups of people. The discussion add…
Advancing residents’ use of shared spaces in Nordic superblocks with intelligent technologies
To support the sustainability of future cities, residents’ living spaces need to be built and used efficiently, while supporting residents’ communal wellbeing. Nordic superblock is a new planning, housing, and living concept in which residents of a neighborhood—a combination of city blocks—share yards, common spaces and utilities. Sharing living spaces is an essential element of this approach. In this study, our goal was to study the ways in whic…
Heating up the sauna
One of the main criticisms of participatory planning is its tendency to produce mediocre outcomes due to the compromises made in the search for consensus. As a remedy, there have been recent proposals to enrich participatory processes with stronger visionary leadership. We want to broaden this debate by highlighting the relationship between successful leaderless self-organisation and more conventional forms of participation. We argue that althoug…
Increasing civic resilience in urban living labs
When pursuing change through urban living labs (ULLs), local authorities encounter a dual imperative: they must act as drivers of change while remaining open to adaptation themselves. Navigating this tension requires a range of context-connecting practices among stakeholders. These dynamic interactions between citizens and city authorities are investigated in the transformation of an industrial area into a sustainable urban district, thereby fore…
Eco-gentrification in a Welfare State
In Nordic welfare states, progressive planning and housing policies have prevented the most severe forms of gentrification-led displacement. In this paper, we argue that eco-gentrification as a phenomenon is entering the Nordic countries. We illustrate this with a case study of the fast-growing, medium-sized Finnish city of Tampere, where the transformation of a former welfare city into a “sustainable city” is creating unintended gentrification. …
Saving the “lungs of the city”
We have long witnessed conservation movements emerging in tandem with industrial expansion and urbanisation, but such impetus took a new turn in the 1960s and 1970s with the global birth of a new kind of urban environmental policy. In this comparative case study, we provide a close examination of two urban movements at the forefront of a new era of environmentalism, movements that bore lasting environmental policy agendas in their respective citi…
Governing circular cities
This article discusses innovative ways of governing cities in the interest of promoting the circular economy. We focus on identifying the role of resources, expertise and commitment of local construction businesses in the pursuit of urban circularity, institutional logics utilized in urban planning processes, stakeholder perspectives on innovative practices and the identification of leverage points in the innovative plot handover process in terms…
Selective Precision
Publisher Copyright: © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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