Harbour Bathing and the Urban Transition of Water in Copenhagen
Junctions, Mediators, and Urban Navigations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4143357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jens Stissing Jensen (0000-0003-3535-3773, Aalborg University, corresponding author), Erik Hagelskjær Lauridsen (Aalborg University, corresponding author), Chiara Farné Fratini (0000-0002-8242-7977, Aalborg University, corresponding author), Birgitte Hoffmann (0000-0001-8222-4988, Aalborg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 554-570 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a130132p |
| OpenAlex | W2034348836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 24 |
In 2002 the first public harbour swimming bath in the inner harbour of Copenhagen opened. By translating the old industrial harbour into a site of urban living and recreation, the practice of swimming in the harbour has been instrumental in aligning and catalysing a series of broader urban transformations pertaining to the wastewater infrastructure, industrial activities, urban development, and international marketing of the city. Through a study of the processes by which swimming in the harbour came into being as a transformative urban practice, we develop a navigational conceptualisation of urban transition processes. Our study suggests that the creation of the first harbour bath was not the end result of an overall master plan. Rather, we demonstrate that the harbour baths were the outcome of a contingent interplay among embedded actors' myopic and navigational actions over a period of twenty years. In order to conceptualise what provoked these navigational actions and how they translated into transformative urban change, we develop the notions of junctions and transition mediators. We introduce the notion of junctions to understand how navigations are provoked. Junctions are signified by particular sites with identities that have been rendered unstable due to tensions and ambiguities among the established sociomaterial assemblages by which they are configured. We argue that navigations signify sociomaterial repair work aimed at addressing such junctions. To conceptualise how such navigations might translate into coordinated urban transformations, we introduce the notion of transition mediators. A transition mediator is an artefact-such as the harbour baths-that succeeds in generating transformative change by displacing the boundaries and interdependencies within and among the established sociomaterial assemblages of the urban fabric
Biology · Citizen journalism · Environmental planning · Geography · Harbour · Political science · Recreation · Sociology · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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Urban river bathing in selected European cities
Recreation- and sport-led regeneration of urban water infrastructure
Finding the way
Catalyzing sustainability pathways
Kinaesthetic cities
The health potential of urban water
Households as infrastructure junctions in urban sustainability transitions
Enacting urban governance innovation
Creating Copenhagen's Metro – On the role of protected spaces in arenas of development
Towards a regenerative shift in tourism
Scale‐sensitive Governance of the Environment
Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions
Moving Outside or Inside? Objectification and Reflexivity in the Governance of Socio-Technical Systems
The Political Economy and Political Ecology of the Hydro‐Social Cycle
Mapping and navigating transitions—The multi-level perspective compared with arenas of development
Strategic niche management and sustainable innovation journeys
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Notes on the theory of the actor-network
Assemblage and critical urbanism
Rethinking urban metabolism
The Debate on the Sewerage System in Copenhagen from the 1840s to the 1930s
Local Energy Transition and Multilevel Climate Governance
Urban Green Assemblages
Navigation in New Terrain with Familiar Maps
Framing of regimes and transition strategies
The politics of urban assemblages
Urban Political Ecology
The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City
Conceptualizing the Political Ecology of Urban Infrastructures
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |