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dc.contributor.authorKjærås, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-02T11:12:04Z
dc.date.available2021-08-02T11:12:04Z
dc.date.created2021-03-08T11:19:46Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn0042-0980
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2765830
dc.description.abstractCompact city strategies have become central to the development of urban sustainability politics. Cities across the globe are pursuing high-density, mixed-use developments and energy-efficient transportation systems. However, the correlation between compact city strategies and achieved sustainability is largely taken for granted in public and academic debates. Providing a spatial critique of the theory guiding compact city policy and practice, this article demonstrates how the prioritisation of urban form and territorial boundaries in measuring sustainability ultimately ignores the societal and environmental effects and foundations of current compact city approaches. Building upon this critique, I argue for a relational orientation that can attune research and practice to the compact city’s intensive and extensive constitution and consequently to its actual and potential (re)production. Analysing Oslo’s involvement in the EU network ‘Sub>Urban: Reinventing the Fringe’, and work that has followed from this network, the article develops three critical perspectives to advance compact city theorisation beyond traditional frameworks: (1) the relational topographies of the compact city; (2) the relational intensities of the compact city; and (3) the planetary constitution of the compact city. In doing so, a critical geography of how the compact city is produced – discursively and materially – is proposed.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleTowards a relational conception of the compact cityen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright Urban Studies Journal Limited 2020en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextpostprint
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0042098020907281
dc.identifier.cristin1896293
dc.source.journalUrban Studiesen_US
dc.source.pagenumber1176-1192en_US
dc.identifier.citationUrban Studies. 2021, 58(6), 1176-1192en_US
dc.source.volume58en_US
dc.source.issue6en_US


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