@article{0cafc7fca331409daba4e3c8e9e2ea2e,
title = "Challenges in land use and transport planning integration in Helsinki metropolitan region—a historical-institutional perspective",
abstract = "Land use and transport integration has been considered a must-have approach in achieving sustainable urban development. However, successful applications of the concept have been few, as institutional reforms to support land use and transport integration have lagged behind. Accordingly, this article argues that understanding difficulties in land use and transport integration requires an analysis of the long-term evolution of formal and informal institutional frameworks in planning practices. For this purpose, this article presents a case study of land use and transport planning in Finland{\textquoteright}s Helsinki Metropolitan Region, which combines interview research on planners{\textquoteright} perceptions with a document analysis of the historical trajectories of the region{\textquoteright}s plans, policy documents and related institutional and organizational changes. The historical-institutional approach of the article draws on discursive institutionalism as a novel analytical approach for studying how land use and transport integration is institutionally conditioned.",
keywords = "Discursive institutionalism, Finland, Metropolitan governance, Path dependency, Transport system",
author = "Oya Duman and Raine M{\"a}ntysalo and Kaisa Granqvist and Emily Johnson and Ronikonm{\"a}ki, {Niko Matti}",
note = "Funding Information: The unevenness of resources in metropolitan transport and land use planning also follows from the above differences in their institutionalization. The transport system planning by the HSL is funded by its member municipalities and the state for its institutionally designated duties, while there are no extra funds reserved for metropolitan land use planning. While the HSYK is a light cooperative organ, there is no actual land use planning agency at the metropolitan level. Instead, the municipal land use planners assign the time that is left to metropolitan level land use planning concerns after having to handle their municipal planning duties, institutionally assigned to them. What follows is that the actions of the municipal land use planners are much more closely observed by the municipal decision makers, and the conflict between the metropolitan and municipal land use interests is evident in their everyday planning work. While a metropolitan body to take charge of land use planning at that level has been missing, a logical consequence was that HSL, with its organizational prowess and resources, assumed the coordinating role in the MAL 2019 planning process. This unavoidably also led to an integrated land use and transport planning context where the transport planning approach is more influential and decisive in the MAL 2019 planning process. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3390/su14010146",
language = "English",
volume = "14",
journal = "Sustainability (Switzerland)",
issn = "2071-1050",
publisher = "MDPI AG",
number = "1",
}
