Planeringens makt : en utforskande studie om maktstrukturer och det offentliga rummet

This study aims to explore how Swedish comprehensive planning discusses different claims to power and also which claims are able to impact the public space. The study also seeks to examine how underlying power structures are affected by municipal comprehensive planning and how modern-day planning manages inequalities between different demographic groups. The concept of territoriality is used in this research in order to explore different kinds of planning approaches and notions of power. Empirical analysis is used as a tool in order to analyse and dissect two comprehensive plans made by municipalities in the Stockholm area. This is done from a standpoint that favours social sustainability. The results show that although municipal planning has implemented numerous aspects of social sustainability, and many of the planning approaches can be justified by environmental sustainability, both plans have been found lacking in regards to consideration for building structures already in place, many of these established during the post-war period and affected by social alienation. The study concludes that there are other types of power notions that modern day planning does not consider on a comprehensive level, thereby ignoring individual needs of citizens and potentially strengthening present power structures