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This article is concerned with the relationship between atmosphere and memory in the context of rapid urban development. I explore this relationship by looking to the northeastern fringes of central Stockholm, where a new neighborhood is being constructed in extension of industrial and residential areas long established as integral albeit peripheral parts of the city. Known by its official English‐language moniker as Stockholm Royal Seaport, this neighborhood‐in‐the‐works occupies a unique location within the growing city. Meanwhile, the local environment is currently undergoing a process of cleaning up that allows for a multisensorial and imaginative engagement with both past and future. In interrogating this case, I argue that designing for the future has come to entail a curation of the past that obfuscates difference and creates order through atmospheric memory: memory that shapes and is shaped by atmospheres.

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In this article I explore the relationship between heritage, difference, and urban development. More specifically, I present a case study of the barrio of Patronato in Santiago de Chile and show how its heritage of otherness simultaneously situates the neighbourhood on the fringes of the city and plays into the neoliberal logic of its developmental trajectory. I argue that Patronato works as a post-dictatorial memory haunt frequented by a past that might appear missing on the surface but is in fact there, urging us to further nuance our understanding of the presences and absences of the bygone. In a broader sense, I use the example of Patronato to point to the often subtle but nonetheless significant entanglement between neighbourhood actors and the political establishment in the realm of heritage; an entanglement that, I suggest, requires further critical scrutiny.