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Purpose: In the present article, we focus on how we are to understand a locally sensitive organisation of territorial cohesion in the Danish context. Public facilitation of the involvement of local businesses and civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and local development is becoming ever more crucial. Traditional sociological concepts and standardized area-types used for administrative purposes have turned out not being very helpful for guiding this facilitation and in understanding the interrelation between inequality, urbanization and territorial cohesion. We argue for a processual and relational approach to urbanization.
Methodology: The present article is based on interview material and policy documents from three Danish case studies representing urban, suburban and rural forms of settlement. The case studies is part of a cross-European research project.
Findings: We show how territorial governance play a key role in the strategies of densification/de- densification facilitating shielding capacities of collective efficacy, and reversely that bottom-up innovations are crucial for the ability of territorial governance to mobilize territorial capital and mediate in effects of territorial inequality. Spatial imaginaries legitimize these efforts to organize cohesion. The spatial imaginaries work as common frame of reference for the interplay between strategies of (de)densification and collective efficacy, and they activate particular balances between growth agendas and everyday life.
Originality: These findings represent an original perspective on how and why urbanization impact on places in a more specific and variated way than often portrayed as it highlight how social capacities tied to place might work with or against existing social, economic and cultural structures shaping territorial cohesion.
Purpose: In the present article, we focus on how we are to understand a locally sensitive organisation of territorial cohesion in the Danish context. Public facilitation of the involvement of local businesses and civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and local development is becoming ever more crucial. Traditional sociological concepts and standardized area-types used for administrative purposes have turned out not being very helpful for guiding this facilitation and in understanding the interrelation between inequality, urbanization and territorial cohesion. We argue for a processual and relational approach to urbanization.
Methodology: The present article is based on interview material and policy documents from three Danish case studies representing urban, suburban and rural forms of settlement. The case studies is part of a cross-European research project.
Findings: We show how territorial governance play a key role in the strategies of densification/de- densification facilitating shielding capacities of collective efficacy, and reversely that bottom-up innovations are crucial for the ability of territorial governance to mobilize territorial capital and mediate in effects of territorial inequality. Spatial imaginaries legitimize these efforts to organize cohesion. The spatial imaginaries work as common frame of reference for the interplay between strategies of (de)densification and collective efficacy, and they activate particular balances between growth agendas and everyday life.
Originality: These findings represent an original perspective on how and why urbanization impact on places in a more specific and variated way than often portrayed as it highlight how social capacities tied to place might work with or against existing social, economic and cultural structures shaping territorial cohesion.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Organizational Ethnography |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 64-78 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISSN | 2046-6749 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Apr 2022 |
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Keywords
- Cohesion
- Collective efficacy
- Densification/de-densification
- Spatial imagery
- Territorial inequality
- Urbanization
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COHSMO: Inequality, urbanization and Territorial Cohesion - Developing the European Social Model of economic growth and democratic capacity
Andersen, H. T., Nielsen, R. S., Jørgensen, A., Fallov, M. A., Tølbøll, L. & de Neergaard, M.
01/05/2017 → 30/04/2021
Project: Research