Digital urban form models for a strengthened urban planning practice: resource-efficient, sustainable and equal spatial planning
Project name: Digital urban form models for a strengthened urban planning practice: resource-efficient, sustainable and equal spatial planning
Project leader: Ann Legeby, KTH Architecture
Participating organization or university:
Lars Marcus, Chalmers
Meta Berghauser, Chalmers
Anna Noring Hantin, Göteborgs stad
Eveliina Hafvenstein-Säteri, Stockholms stad
Per Haupt, Norrköpings kommun
Mabel Pena Osorio, Eskilstuna kommun
Jenny Jernström, Östersunds kommun
Ida Wezelius, Uppsala kommun
Lukas Ljungqvist, Stockholms stad och KTH
Project period: 2024-08-01 - 2027-07-31
Funding: FORMAS
By their planning monopoly Swedish municipalities are responsible, with due recognition of national interests, to decide and plan the future use of land in Sweden. This constitutes an exceptional creation of value by spatially structuring almost all other activities in the Swedish society.
Recent years has seen decisive development in research, not least due to digitalization, with direct implications for planning practice, by opening for more advanced analyses of the built environment, more knowledge intense work procedures and more informative decision supports.
The project comprises six municipalities (Eskilstuna, Gothenburg, Norrköping, Stockholm, Uppsala and Östersund) as well as research groups at KTH and C halmers. These municipalities are all in the forefront of applying this new knowledge and have over a long time had close collaboration with research in urban planning and design at KTH and C halmers. The aim of the project is to consolidate and accelerate this work as a means to also spread this development to other municipalities in Sweden.
The project aims to:
develop new ways or working in practice that use this knowledge development and to form a robust and acknowledged professional level for this practice, facilitate a systematic and continuous process of exchange and learning between the six municipalities, breaking the ground for other Swedish municipalities, contribute to close collaboration between research and practice to bring the latest knowledge development into practice, but also to help research learn from the extensive experience of practice.
The goal is to create a robust foundation for work in municipalities with digital models of urban form when it comes to analysis, interpretation and working methods. Key is the creation of standards for the models data management; formalization of common base analyses; and to establish a professional quality norm when it comes to the interpretation of analytic results and simulations.
