The Strategic Incrementalism of Lahti Master Planning : Three Lessons

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
Date
2019
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Language
en
Pages
18
555-572
Series
Planning Theory and Practice, Volume 20, issue 4
Abstract
The city of Lahti, Finland, has developed a unique policy of combining city strategy work with strategic master planning in an iterative process. It thereby offers insights to research on strategic spatial planning, exemplifying how institutional frameworks of statutory planning can be utilized as resources in strategic planning. Three lessons from the Lahti case are drawn: (1) utilize the moments of opportunity in the institutional environment of statutory planning, (2) shift the focus from the level of ‘strategic plans’ to the policy level of strategy work, (3) develop strategic planning as a platform for diverse ‘languages’.
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Finland, institutional rules, land use planning, policy, Strategic spatial planning
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Citation
Mäntysalo , R , Tuomisaari , J , Granqvist , K & Kanninen , V 2019 , ' The Strategic Incrementalism of Lahti Master Planning : Three Lessons ' , Planning Theory and Practice , vol. 20 , no. 4 , pp. 555-572 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2019.1652336