Strategic planning harnessing urban policy mobilities: the gradual development of local sustainability fix

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The aim of our article is to follow how global policy models affect local policy making. Each city has unique local challenges in promoting development, e.g. economic growth, but also needs to find a balance between these targets and demands for sustainable city solutions. In our empirical study, we follow how ideas of waterfront development–to attract new inhabitants and promote economic growth–and global demands of carbon control were used interactively in a strategic spatial planning process in the city of Tampere, Finland. During the six-year planning process, these two policy targets became interdependent, created a new policy-making domain, and led to a combinatorial development of sustainability elements arising from this domain. These findings demonstrate the serial use of global policy models in the creation of a local urban ‘sustainability fix’. To conclude, the intertwinement of diverse global policy models in a city planning process creates easily a recursive cycle that redefines urban sustainability within cities and intercity networks. This perspective makes local policy narratives and strategic planning highly important in urban sustainability research as promoting urban sustainability becomes an inherently ambivalent practice.

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Jokinen, A., Leino, H., Bäcklund, P., & Laine, M. (2018). Strategic planning harnessing urban policy mobilities: the gradual development of local sustainability fix. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 20(5), 551–563. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2018.1454828

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