Abstract
Integrated planning processes involve an increasing number of actors and aim to create synergy between multiple knowledges in communicative settings. Planning research has acknowledged that the actor-relational aspects of planning processes are not yet adequately understood, and that methods to reveal the often-invisible dynamics and their possible effects over time require development. This research aims at developing a methodological contribution for revealing the socio-communicative complexities of integrated planning processes, by focusing on the aspects of knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Actor-relational dynamics are explored through social network analysis and qualitative methods, using longitudinal data from a four-year strategic spatial planning process in the Finnish context. The findings indicate that a range of actor-relational dynamics affect the level of sectoral and scalar integration over time, and that social complexities have an essential role in enabling knowledge co-creation and process memory development. Unveiling actor-relational dynamics is a promising research direction, requiring new methods for bridging research and practice, and re-centring the need for understanding planning practice on the actor-relational level.
Highlights
The growing complexity of cities is a widely discussed theme (Batty, 2005; de Roo and Silva, 2010; Portugali, 2012; Boonstra, 2015; Sengupta et al, 2016)
The findings indicate that a range of actor-relational dynamics affect the level of sectoral and scalar integration over time, and that social complexities have an essential role in enabling knowledge co-creation and process memory development
In order to deepen the view of planning as a socially constructed and knowledge-intensive process, this research focuses on actor-relational process structures which affect knowledge co-creation and process memory development over time
Summary
The growing complexity of cities is a widely discussed theme (Batty, 2005; de Roo and Silva, 2010; Portugali, 2012; Boonstra, 2015; Sengupta et al, 2016). In order to support the understanding of nonlinear urban complexities, more actors are entering planning processes to share and integrate their expertise. Responding to the growing complexities and the need for more holistic planning practices, the concept of integrated planning has been discussed (Stead and Meijers, 2009; Holden, 2012; Yigitcanlar and Teriman, 2015; Bertolini, 2017; Kaiser, Gaasch and Weith, 2017; Ferreira, 2018). Even though the exact definition of integration is not fixed, sectoral and scalar aspects of integration are typically included in all the proposed frameworks (Healey, 2006; Vigar, 2009; te Brömmelstroet and Bertolini, 2010; Holden, 2012), occasionally complemented with the notion of organisational integration (Kidd, 2007)
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