A Healthy City for All? Social Services’ Roles in Collaborative Urban Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22017960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (0000-0003-3003-0457, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Maria Fjellfeldt (0000-0001-9836-6446, Dalarna University), Ebba Högström (0000-0002-7725-1233, Blekinge Institute of Technology), Urban Markström (0000-0002-6330-5640, Umeå University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v7i4.5620 |
| OpenAlex | W4306696306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
There is broad consensus among policymakers about the urgency of developing healthy, inclusive, and socially sustainable cities. In the Swedish context, social services are considered to have knowledge that needs to be integrated into the broader urban development processes in order to accomplish such ends. This article aims to better understand the ways in which social service officials collaborate in urban development processes for developing the social dimensions of healthy cities. We draw from neo-institutional theories, which set out actors (e.g., social service officials) as acting according to a logic of appropriateness , which means that actors do what they see as appropriate for themselves in a specific type of situation. Based on semi-structured interviews with social services officials in 10 Swedish municipalities on their experiences of collaboration in the development of housing and living environments for people with psychiatric disabilities, we identified that they act based on (a) a pragmatic rule of conduct through the role of the problem solver, (b) a bureaucratic rule of conduct through the role of the knowledge provider, and (c) activist rule of conduct through the role of the advocator. In these roles, they have little authority in the development processes, and are unable to set the agenda for the social dimensions of healthy cities but act as the moral consciousness by looking out for everyone’s right to equal living conditions in urban development
Bureaucracy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Social Work
Collaborative Planning
Street-Level Bureaucracy
Spatial Planning and Policy Integration
Qualitatively capturing institutional logics
Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
The Logic of Appropriateness
Organizing cross-sectoral housing provision planning
Advocacy planning
Doing Interviews
The perceptions and priorities of professionals in health and social welfare and city planning for creating a healthy living environment
Studies regarding supported housing and the built environment for people with mental health problems
Urban Planning for Healthy Cities
It’s about Living Like Everyone Else”
Fringe or Not Fringe? Strategies for Localizing Supported Accommodation in a Post‐Deinstitutional Era
Managing collaborative innovation in public bureaucracies
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex
The banality of state violence
Human Services as Complex Organizations
Social Work, Inter-Disciplinary Cooperation and Self-Neglect
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning
The Design and Implementation of Cross‐Sector Collaborations
The Institutional Logics Perspective
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |