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Jönsson, E. & Baeten, G. (2024). Whose visions for what land?: Planning, power and property in a 'new inner city', Malmö 2004-2023. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Whose visions for what land?: Planning, power and property in a 'new inner city', Malmö 2004-2023
2024 (English)In: Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, ISSN 0435-3684, E-ISSN 1468-0467Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Based in interviews as well as analysis of planning documents and media coverage, this article scrutinizes the role of property in urban morphology by tracing two decades of attempts to redevelop Norra Sorgenfri, a partly deindustrialized area almost at the topographic centre of Malmö, Sweden. In this city, urban redevelopment projects are centrally placed within a hegemonic story of Malmö as shedding its industrial past to become a sustainability forerunner. This was the story that Norra Sorgenfri was inserted into, with initial visions underlining its potential as an exciting extension of the inner city. But in targeting this 45 ha piece of land, Malmö also planned to transform a landscape subdivided into a complex pattern of mostly private properties alongside some scattered lots of municipally owned land. Scrutinizing property in Norra Sorgenfri and how particular property owners have reacted to redevelopment efforts, we centre on the significance of this lack of municipal land. Rather than merely asserting that property matters, we thus strive to trace how property matters, to planners striving to realize visions for a future Malmö, to different land-owners in the area, to the unhoused seeking refuge on post-industrial land, and to the authorities tasked with removing them.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
Property, planning, Malmö, brownfield redevelopment, power
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-72022 (URN)10.1080/04353684.2024.2411219 (DOI)001336302400001 ()2-s2.0-85207301301 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-11-08 Created: 2024-11-08 Last updated: 2024-11-08Bibliographically approved
Baeten, G. (2023). Visioning and social sustainability versus property: The case of Norra Sorgenfri, Malmö. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, 77(5), 310-314
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Visioning and social sustainability versus property: The case of Norra Sorgenfri, Malmö
2023 (English)In: Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, ISSN 0029-1951, E-ISSN 1502-5292, Vol. 77, no 5, p. 310-314Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The article addresses the simple but pertinent question of why ambitious urban planning visions slowly lose a significant share of their aims during the implementation phase and why there often occurs a significant time span between vision and implementation. Using the development of the deindustrialised Norra Sorgenfri neighbourhood in central Malmö, Sweden, as an example, the author enquires into why developing the area became so complicated, and why the original vision, with its focus on social sustainability, largely disappeared despite private developers having invested in land acquisition in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Based on document analysis of the vision for Norra Sorgenfri from 2006 and the subsequent planning programme from 2008, as well as interviews with planners and property developers, this article seeks to highlight the mechanisms due to which the implementation of the Norra Sorgenfri plans differs from original visions and strategies, as well as examine why the process was so slow. The authors conclude that the planning office’s ‘visioning’ becomes powerless in the face of ‘property-led regeneration’ where private developers have most of the decision-making power, and that the ‘social sustainability’ ideal cannot be achieved through physical regeneration alone. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
Keywords
Malmö, social sustainability, urban planning
National Category
Social and Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-64268 (URN)10.1080/00291951.2023.2283416 (DOI)001112723100001 ()2-s2.0-85178391320 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-12-12 Created: 2023-12-12 Last updated: 2024-01-05Bibliographically approved
Valli, C. & Baeten, G. (2022). Editorial: Imagining/doing smart cities. Urban Matters, 2
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Editorial: Imagining/doing smart cities
2022 (English)In: Urban Matters, Vol. 2Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Institute for Urban Research, Malmö university, 2022
Keywords
smart city; urban planning
National Category
Social and Economic Geography
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-50713 (URN)
Available from: 2022-03-22 Created: 2022-03-22 Last updated: 2023-10-25Bibliographically approved
Listerborn, C. & Baeten, G. (2022). Struggling with Conceptual Framings to Understand Swedish Displacement Processe. In: Peter Jakobsen; Erik Jönsson; Henrik Gutzon Larsen (Ed.), Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography: Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions (pp. 207-216). Berlin: Springer Nature
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Struggling with Conceptual Framings to Understand Swedish Displacement Processe
2022 (English)In: Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography: Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions / [ed] Peter Jakobsen; Erik Jönsson; Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Berlin: Springer Nature, 2022, p. 207-216Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Research on displacement has a long trajectory in Western geography and urban studies. In a Swedish context theory formation around displacement re-emerged in the 2010s as a response to an increasingly heated housing market, increased gentrification and growing homelessness, and as a consequence of ‘renoviction’ processes. Learning from empirical research in Sweden, the Nordic experiences differ from the Anglo-American context, and set ground for a theoretical discussion on how to understand the specificities of displacement processes in (post-)welfare societies. In this chapter we investigate some Swedish manifestations of displacement that cannot easily be grasped by conceptual apparatuses often developed in an Anglo-American context. The process of displacement in a Swedish (and Nordic) context is often more indirect and slower but its eventual outcomes have the same damaging effects on its victims. The chapter provides both an historical and contemporary view of Swedish displacement processes and practices, and we argue that we cannot uncritically import a conceptual apparatus that grew out of other socio-spatial contexts and develop particular understandings of displacement based on Nordic empirical observations.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Springer Nature, 2022
Keywords
Displacement, gentrification, housing
National Category
Social and Economic Geography Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-51979 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-04234-8_12 (DOI)2-s2.0-85166752192 (Scopus ID)978-3-031-04233-1 (ISBN)978-3-031-04234-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-06-02 Created: 2022-06-02 Last updated: 2024-11-13Bibliographically approved
Fonseca Alfaro, C., Melgaco, L. & Baeten, G. (2022). Understanding smart cities through a critical lens. In: Brears, Robert C. (Ed.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures: (pp. 1923-1934). Cham.: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Understanding smart cities through a critical lens
2022 (English)In: Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures / [ed] Brears, Robert C., Cham.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, p. 1923-1934Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
National Category
Social and Economic Geography
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-58517 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_344 (DOI)978-3-030-87744-6 (ISBN)978-3-030-87745-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-02 Created: 2023-03-02 Last updated: 2025-01-17Bibliographically approved
Listerborn, C., Baeten, G. & Valli, C. (Eds.). (2021). Bostadsmanifest: 22 krav för framtidens hem. Av CRUSH med vänner. Stockholm: Dokument Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Bostadsmanifest: 22 krav för framtidens hem. Av CRUSH med vänner
2021 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

Boken Bostadsmanifest – 22 krav för framtidens hem samlar 25 forskare och aktivister som vill bidra med att skapa en bostadsmarknad för alla. Deras 22 krav utgår från kunskap och erfarenhet från både forskning och aktivism, där författarna efterlyser en aktiv kommunal och statlig socialt inkluderande bostadspolitik.

Boken ska inspirera medborgare, politiker och aktivister med nya erfarenheter, forskningsresultat och visioner i bostadsfrågan. Kraven placerar hemmet i fokus som en viktig plats i alla människors liv. Bostaden är mer än en marknadsvara, den är en rättighet.

Bostadsmanifest är en uppföljning och utveckling av boken 13 Myter om bostadsfrågan (2016), författad av forskarkollektivet CRUSH – Critical Urban Sustainability Hub.

Nu har fler vänner bjudits in till att medverka till detta mångsidiga manifest där steget tas från kritiska reflektioner till visioner om en framtida välkomnande stads- och bostadsplanering.

Bostadsmanifest – 22 krav för framtidens hem är illustrerad av seriekonstnären Daria Bogdanska, författare till den hyllade serieromanen Wage Slaves. Boken är formgiven av Magnus Frederiksen.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Dokument Press, 2021. p. 134
Keywords
bostadsfrågan, hemmet, manifest
National Category
Social Sciences
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-40119 (URN)9789188369512 (ISBN)
Projects
CRUSH - Critical Urban Sustainabilitiy Hub
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 259-2013-1794
Available from: 2021-01-28 Created: 2021-01-28 Last updated: 2023-10-25Bibliographically approved
Baeten, G. & Valli, C. (Eds.). (2021). Smart Cities for City Officials: A Social Sciences approach.. Malmö: Institute for urban research at Malmö University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Smart Cities for City Officials: A Social Sciences approach.
2021 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Institute for urban research at Malmö University, 2021. p. 157
Series
MAPIUS, ISSN 1654-6881 ; 29
Keywords
smart city, urban planning
National Category
Social and Economic Geography
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-49286 (URN)10.24834/isbn.9789178772179 (DOI)978-91-7877-217-9 (ISBN)978-91-7877-216-2 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2017-01422
Available from: 2022-01-11 Created: 2022-01-11 Last updated: 2023-10-25Bibliographically approved
Persdotter, M., Baeten, G., Listerborn, C. & Pull, E. (2020). Conclusion: housing displacement: conceptual and methodological issues. In: Guy Baeten; Carina Listerborn; Maria Persdotter; Emil Pull (Ed.), Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues (pp. 186-197). Oxon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Conclusion: housing displacement: conceptual and methodological issues
2020 (English)In: Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues / [ed] Guy Baeten; Carina Listerborn; Maria Persdotter; Emil Pull, Oxon: Routledge, 2020, p. 186-197Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxon: Routledge, 2020
Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City, ISSN 2834-8559, E-ISSN 2834-8540
Keywords
Housing Displacement, Gentrification
National Category
Social Sciences
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18670 (URN)10.4324/9780429427046-13 (DOI)2-s2.0-85090985464 (Scopus ID)9781138385559 (ISBN)9780429427046 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 250-2103-1794
Available from: 2020-10-15 Created: 2020-10-15 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Derakhti, L. & Baeten, G. (2020). Contradictions of Transit-Oriented Development in Low-Income Neighborhoods: The Case Study of Rosengard in Malmö, Sweden. Urban Science, 4(2), Article ID 20.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Contradictions of Transit-Oriented Development in Low-Income Neighborhoods: The Case Study of Rosengard in Malmö, Sweden
2020 (English)In: Urban Science, ISSN 2413-8851, Vol. 4, no 2, article id 20Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Transit-oriented development (TOD) has become a leading model of urban planning worldwide that promises to meet a broad range of local and regional objectives: improving mobility, expanding ridership, attracting investment, reducing urban poverty, improving quality of life, making affordable housing and fostering urban integration. At the same time, the implementation of TOD in many cities has raised concerns about gentrification, displacement, re-segregation, and more polarization. This article aims to shed light on these issues by bringing together previously disparate literature that mentions these contradictions and discusses policymakers' hopes and critics' concern for the implementation of a newly started TOD project in a universal housing system in Rosengard-a segregated, low-income neighborhood in Malmo, Sweden. Although policy advocates view the project as a significant development strategy for a more sustainable Malmo, there are also real concerns about gentrification and the potential displacement of low-income residents. Furthermore, the mixed-methods study showes how integration might be achieved, but concerns have arisen about the possible exclusion of the current low-income residents, which brings up issues of inequality, representation of poverty, and marginalization.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2020
Keywords
transit-induced gentrification, displacement, affordable housing, segregation, Rosengård
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-41100 (URN)10.3390/urbansci4020020 (DOI)000620955400006 ()2-s2.0-85092799208 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-03-09 Created: 2021-03-09 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved
Baeten, G., Listerborn, C., Persdotter, M. & Pull, E. (Eds.). (2020). Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues (1ed.). Oxon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
2020 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice – a central issue in urban injustices.

With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Hungary, this book explores how housing displacement processes are more diverse and mutate into more new forms than have been acknowledged in the literature. It emphasizes a need to look beyond the existing rich gentrification literature to give primacy to researching processes of displacement to understand the socio-spatial change in the city. Although it is empirically and methodologically demanding for several reasons, studying displacement highlights gentrification’s unjust nature as well as the unjust housing policies in cities and neighborhoods that are simply not undergoing gentrification. The book also demonstrates how expulsion, though under-researched, has become a vital component of contemporary advanced capitalism, and how a focus on gentrification has hindered a potential focus on its flipside of ‘displacement’, as well as the study of the occurrence of poor cleansing from a long-term historical perspective.

This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on housing displacement to academics and researchers in the fields of urban studies, housing, citizenship and migration studies interested in housing policies and governance practices at the urban scale.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxon: Routledge, 2020. p. 226 Edition: 1
Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City, ISSN 2834-8559, E-ISSN 2834-8540 ; 9
Keywords
housing displacement, gentrification
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18656 (URN)10.4324/9780429427046 (DOI)2-s2.0-85090949642 (Scopus ID)9781138385559 (ISBN)9780429427046 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 250-2103-1794
Available from: 2020-10-15 Created: 2020-10-15 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved
Projects
Smart cities for City Officials; Malmö University, Institute for Urban Research (IUR)Smart Housing Development: A Critical Exploration through an intersectional approach; Malmö University; Publications
Torisson, F. (2023). The Digitalisation of Swedish Housing: The First Forty Years. Footprint, 17(1), 23-42Torisson, F. (2022). Strategies of visibility in the smart city. City, Territory and Architecture, 9(1), Article ID 15.
Norra Sorgenfri planned, populated and problematised: the role of social sustainability in urban renewal; Publications
Listerborn, C. (2024). Är det verkligen trygghet vi vill ha?: Om trygghetsskapande insatser i stadsomvandling (1ed.). In: E. Jönsson; J. Pries; M. Negash (Ed.), Läget i staden: Fallet Norra Sorgenfri, mellanrummet och innerstaden som löfte (pp. 147-165). Stockholm: Dokument Press
Public health, epidemics and urban planning: reinstating the connection; Malmö University
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