The Strategic Incrementalism of Lahti Master Planning : Three Lessons

Raine Mäntysalo; Johanna Tuomisaari; Kaisa Granqvist; Vesa Kanninen

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The Strategic Incrementalism of Lahti Master Planning : Three Lessons

Raine Mäntysalo^*, Johanna Tuomisaari, Kaisa Granqvist, Vesa Kanninen

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University of Helsinki

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Abstract

The city of Lahti, Finland, has developed a unique policy of combining city strategy work with strategic master planning in an iterative process. It thereby offers insights to research on strategic spatial planning, exemplifying how institutional frameworks of statutory planning can be utilized as resources in strategic planning. Three lessons from the Lahti case are drawn: (1) utilize the moments of opportunity in the institutional environment of statutory planning, (2) shift the focus from the level of ‘strategic plans’ to the policy level of strategy work, (3) develop strategic planning as a platform for diverse ‘languages’.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	555-572
Number of pages	18
Journal	Planning Theory and Practice
Volume	20
Issue number	4
Early online date	23 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2019.1652336
Publication status	Published - 2019
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Finland
institutional rules
land use planning
policy
Strategic spatial planning

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