Sweden: The Life and Death and Life of Great Neighbourhood Centres

Nyström, Louise; Lundström, Mats

doi:10.2148/benv.32.1.32

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“…The two areas of Stockholm which form the geographical focus of this paper, Rinkeby and Södermalm, in many ways embody the increasing fragmentation of recent decades. Rinkeby, an area born out of a modernistic planning initiative of the 1960s, has even since relatively early in its history, housed a largely immigrant population (Nyström and Lundström 2006), and the proportion of foreign born residents in the area has continued to grow since the 1970s, so that now the percentage of residents in the larger Rinkeby‐Tensta region with a foreign background is around 83%, the highest in Stockholm (Stockholms Stad 2017a). It has been largely characterised within the Swedish imaginary as an area suffering from a number of social issues, and as such is often drawn upon to illustrate the failures of Swedish integration policies, although such one‐sided narratives are frequently challenged by local residents (Pred 2000; Ritz 2016).…”

Section: Swedish Neoliberalism and The Production Of A Divided Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revanchism via Pedestrianism: Street‐level Bureaucracy in the Production of Uneven Policing Landscapes

Levy

2020

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The emergence over the last decade of large numbers of vulnerable EU citizens begging on Swedish streets has led to ambivalent responses from the Swedish state, including from local police forces charged with policing public order. Based on research including interviews with vulnerable EU citizens and with police officials in two socio‐economically divergent areas of Stockholm, this paper seeks to understand how policing practices are motivated and enacted towards this group and how these practices are experienced by those targeted. The results reveal a set of policing practices which, whilst framed within a depoliticised logic of what Nicholas Blomley calls “pedestrianism”, work to produce spatially uneven punitive landscapes for those begging. The paper argues that understanding the role of police as “street‐level bureaucrats” (following Michael Lipsky), with the agency to escalate or soften revanchist landscapes, is fundamental to understanding the contingencies at the heart of punitive urbanisms.

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Section: Swedish Neoliberalism and The Production Of A Divided Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revanchism via Pedestrianism: Street‐level Bureaucracy in the Production of Uneven Policing Landscapes

Levy

2020

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“…Kungsholmen is perceived as a popular middle-class city neighbourhood with various types of private-owned and rental housing (ibid. ), whereas Farsta and Rinkeby are typical Swedish ABC-city suburban neighbourhoods built in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively [60,61]. In contrast to the other two neighbourhoods, Rinkeby has a large stock of housing accommodating low-income and immigrant residents.…”

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The Role of Third Place concerning Loneliness in the Context of Ageing in Place: Three Neighbourhoods in Stockholm

Jing,

Dahlberg,

Canter

et al. 2024

Health & Social Care in the Community

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There is an increasing recognition of the impact of built environment in the neighbourhood on healthy ageing, especially in the context of ageing in place. This study examines perceptions of third place and its potential value for mitigating loneliness in older adults. Thirty participants aged 65–89, living in ordinary housing across three neighbourhoods in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, conducted the interview-based sorting procedures, namely, Multiple Sorting Tasks (MST). In each individual MST procedure, the participant was asked to sort twenty pictures into groups using his or her own categories. The data were analysed using Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis, integrating qualitative data input and quantitative statistical analysis of the categorisations. Accessible local third places, which facilitate physical activities (especially walking) and community building (meaningful social connections) and provide options for food (a medium for social interactions), were seen as vital resources to combat loneliness. Thus, these places are supportive built environment elements of healthy ageing and ageing in place. The management aspect in third places operated by municipalities, including designing diverse public programs and services, and the service mentality of the staff members play an important role in making these places feel safe, at home, and potentially lessen the experience of loneliness to some extent. This study adds an urban design and planning perspective that can be integrated into environmental approaches to combat loneliness among older adults living in the community.

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“…Going east to west these are Blackeberg, Råcksta, Grimsta, Vällingby, Johannelund (an industrial district), Hässelby Gård, and Hässelby Strand. Each of these were planned to be within walking distance of a tunnelbana station and each would have its own centre with the exception of Johannelund (Nyström and Lundström 2006). Vällingby would act as the nucleus of this development.…”

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“…Retail firms opened in the district centres and other organisations (public and private) located in the Vällingby development area including IBM, the headquarters of Svenska Bostäder and the national power company Vattenfall (Sax 1998). Nevertheless, the area would struggle to attract employers and, as Nyström and Lundström (2006) noted, of the approximately 14,000 people working in Vällingby in 1965 less than a thousand of them lived there. (1961, p. 206) were pleased that "the centre can be reached from most parts of the development without having to cross a single street".…”

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Suburban policy mobilities: examining North American post-war engagements with Vällingby, Stockholm

Cook

2018

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This article calls for a detailed examination of the links between suburbia and the mobilisation of policy knowledge. With suburbanisation taking place across the world and the expanding literature on policy mobilities having little to say about the suburbs, this article begins to address this important gap in our collective understanding. It does this through a case study of Vällingby, a Stockholm suburb that captured the imagination of many planners and architects outside of Sweden during the 1950s and 1960s. Here the article considers the variegated ways in which planners and architects in North America engaged with Vällingby and used lessons learnt from Vällingby in their working practices. It focuses on the encounters with Vällingby by the New Yorkbased architect Clarence Stein as well as those involved in the planning of the metropolitan Toronto suburb of Flemingdon Park. In so doing, the article demonstrates that suburbs are important sites within the circulation of policy knowledge and that audiences elsewhere engage with such sites in a multiplicity of ways. It also challenges a perception of the USA as an exporter and not importer of suburban ideas and models.

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Sweden: The Life and Death and Life of Great Neighbourhood Centres

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Revanchism via Pedestrianism: Street‐level Bureaucracy in the Production of Uneven Policing Landscapes

Revanchism via Pedestrianism: Street‐level Bureaucracy in the Production of Uneven Policing Landscapes

The Role of Third Place concerning Loneliness in the Context of Ageing in Place: Three Neighbourhoods in Stockholm

Suburban policy mobilities: examining North American post-war engagements with Vällingby, Stockholm

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