Planning for 1000 Years
The Råängen Experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Pelzer (0000-0002-8618-5469, Utrecht University), Roger Hildingsson (0000-0002-1696-6905, Lund University), Alice Herrström (Lund University), Johannes Stripple (0000-0003-0312-5362, Lund University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 249-262 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-26 |
| 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.v6i1.3534 |
| OpenAlex | W3146242868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
While traditional forms of urban planning are oriented towards the future, the recent turn towards experimental and challenge-led urban developments is characterized by an overarching presentism. We explore in this article how an experimental approach to urban planning can consider the long-term through setting-up ‘conversations with a future situation.’ In doing so, we draw on a unique experiment: Råängen, a piece of farmland in Lund (Sweden) owned by the Cathedral. The plot is part of Brunnshög, a large urban development program envisioned to accommodate homes, workspaces, and world-class research centers in the coming decades. We trace how Lund Cathedral became an unusual developer involved in ‘planning for thousand years,’ deployed a set of art commissions to allow reflections about values, belief, time, faith, and became committed to play a central role in the development process. The art interventions staged conversations with involved actors as well as publics geographically and temporally far away. The Råängen case illustrates how long-term futures can be fruitfully brought to the present through multiple means of imagination. A key insight for urban planning is how techniques of financial discounting and municipal zoning plans could be complemented with trust in reflective conversations in which questions are prioritized over answers
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A Planner's Day
Experimental governance
Experimenting for sustainability transitions
Taking path dependence seriously
Spatial Planning in the Network Society-Rethinking the Principles of Planning in the Netherlands
From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”
Bounded socio-technical experiments as agents of systemic change
Urban experimentation & sustainability transitions
Sustainability transitions
Authoritative Governance
The Green State
Seeing Like a State
Utopia, scenario and plan
The Theory of Inquiry
Interrogating urban experiments
Self‐Organisation in Oosterwold, Almere
Designing an experiential scenario
Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change
The Pragmatic Tradition in Planning Thought
The Experimental City
Experience and Education
Seedbeds, harbours, and battlegrounds
Planning through debate
Imagination for change
Deep-time organizations
The imaginary worlds of sustainability
Seeing Like a State
Measuring futures in action
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |