Strategic urban planning is promoted to effectively implement sustainability policies. This
paper investigates the role of practitioners when conducting strategic urban planning in a …

This article advocates the need for strategic spatial planning practices to cope with the crises
of climate change that confront cities and regions today. Planners face sustainability …

This dissertation deals with Swedish planning practice. It focuses on municipalities as the
Swedish Planning and Building Act describes the planning of land and water as a municipal …

In recent decades, various strategic approaches to spatial planning have been introduced
and implemented in Sweden, although the planning system itself has not fundamentally …

In Sweden, local and regional planning practices are faced with the challenge of managing
rapid growth in expansive urban regions. However, spatial planning should also contribute …

This paper analyses the ways in which top administrators and planners have framed
sustainable development in western Sweden and explores the impact of this framing on …

This article surveys the way in which the idea of sustainable development is integrated into
current spatial planning practice by Swedish local authorities. The Brundtland Report's …

While social sustainability is attracting attention in both policy and academia, there are still
challenges when turning social sustainability policy into practice. Instead of making cities …

Visions and goals for sustainability in new neighbourhoods aim to engage developers and
citizens in the planning process. Against the backdrop of the market-oriented Swedish …

The quest for cogent responses to sustainability goals challenges local spatial planning
practices across growing metropolitan regions to develop planning approaches that enable …