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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.27,Issue4,P.739-758

语言

英文

关键字

City region; soft governance; spatial planning; urban structure; CULTURAL-POLITICAL ECONOMY; FUNCTIONAL POLYCENTRICITY; URBAN REGION; CONFIGURATIONS; GEOGRAPHIES; GOVERNANCE; PERIPHERY; POLICY; CITIES

作者单位

[Granqvist, Kaisa; Maentysalo, Raine] Aalto Univ, Dept Built Environm, Espoo, Finland. [Sarjamo, Sauli] WSP Finland Oy, Helsinki, Finland. Granqvist, K (reprint author), Aalto Univ, Dept Built Environm, POB 14100, FIN-00760 Aalto, Finland. E-Mail: kaisa.granqvist@aalto.fi

摘要

The paper analyses with a case study the use of a widely applied normative concept of polycentricity as spatial imaginary. The case study of Helsinki City Plan and the conflict over its city-boulevard scheme draws on qualitative content analysis of planning documents and expert interviews. It demonstrates the instrumental role of multiple interpretations of polycentricity in tension-ridden metropolitan and city-regional spatial planning. The conflict reveals how the conceptual ambiguity of polycentricity and the institutional vagueness of city-regional planning have together enabled advancing contradictory political aims under their guise. In conclusion, the paper emphasizes the persuasive performativity and fluidity of polycentricity as a spatial imaginary in multi-scalar planning settings.