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A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification
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Abstract Urban strategies, representing stories of possible futures, often intervene in already established local communities and therefore call for a considerate urban intervention. This article utilises the ideas of Henri Lefebvre’s socially produced space and of literature on stories involved in planning.... view more
Urban strategies, representing stories of possible futures, often intervene in already established local communities and therefore call for a considerate urban intervention. This article utilises the ideas of Henri Lefebvre’s socially produced space and of literature on stories involved in planning. Our empirical example tells a story of urban densification aspirations for an inner-city neighbourhood in Tampere, Finland. By combining the interviews of local people and planners with policy documents, we argue that planners’ stories pay too little attention to the place and to local stories. Planners’ abstract visions of the future and local stories building on lived experiences both draw meanings from the same place but have very different intentions. In our case, the consultation of the project started out wrong because the planners neglected a neighbourhood thick in symbolic meanings and the local stories’ power in resistance. By understanding the place as polyphonic in its foundation, planners could learn about the symbolic elements and reasons for people’s place attachment, and thus end up re-writing the place together. Urban interventions such as urban densification should connect to the place as part of its polyphonic historical continuum and acknowledge the residents’ place attachments.... view less
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
Henri Lefebvre; place attachment; polyphony; spatial triad; stories; storytelling; urban densification; urban infill
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 40-51
Journal
Urban Planning, 3 (2018) 3
Issue topic
Urban Planning and the Spatial Ideas of Henri Lefebvre
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed