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A Healthy City for All? Social Services’ Roles in Collaborative Urban Development
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Dalarna University.
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Spatial Planning.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7725-1233
Umeå University.
2022 (English)In: Urban Planning, E-ISSN 2183-7635, Vol. 7, no 4, p. 113-123Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

There is broad consensus among policymakers about the urgency of developing healthy, inclusive, and socially sustainable cities. In the Swedish context, social services are considered to have knowledge that needs to be integrated into the broader urban development processes in order to accomplish such ends. This article aims to better understand the ways in which social service officials collaborate in urban development processes for developing the social dimensions of healthy cities. We draw from neo‐institutional theories, which set out actors (e.g., social service officials) as acting according to a logic of appropriateness, which means that actors do what they see as appropriate for themselves in a specific type of situation. Based on semi‐structured interviews with social services officials in 10 Swedish municipalities on their experiences of collaboration in the development of housing and living environments for people with psychiatric disabilities, we identified that they act based on (a) a pragmatic rule of conduct through the role of the problem solver, (b) a bureaucratic rule of conduct through the role of the knowledge provider, and (c) activist rule of conduct through the role of the advo-cator. In these roles, they have little authority in the development processes, and are unable to set the agenda for the social dimensions of healthy cities but act as the moral consciousness by looking out for everyone’s right to equal living conditions in urban development. © 2022 by the author(s); licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal).

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Cogitatio Press , 2022. Vol. 7, no 4, p. 113-123
Keywords [en]
collaboration, healthy cities, psychiatric disabilities, social services, Sweden
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Social Work Human Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-23827DOI: 10.17645/up.v7i4.5620ISI: 000878374600009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85140573885OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-23827DiVA, id: diva2:1708475
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Housing and living environments for people with psychiatric disabilities. Aligning social services and housing planning through experimental collaborative practices., Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
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Swedish Research Council Formas, 2018‐00058Swedish Research Council Formas, 2018–00192Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2018‐01325
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