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Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’

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  • Ida Andersson
  • Brita Hermelin

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This paper aims to contribute to a qualitative understanding of rescaling and its impact on planning strategies and governance relations across scales. By investigating the effects of rescaling for the old scale ‘left behind’ – through the case of public transport planning in Sweden – this paper illustrates how rescaled tasks continue to engage the scale ‘left behind’ (and is a source of ‘tensions’), long after a rescaling process has taken place. Through the lens of rescaling, three main points of discussion are highlighted in the paper: Firstly, processes of rescaling are intertwined with policy layering, and can as such be a source of both ‘good and evil’ for the continued planning on the scale ‘left behind’. Secondly, this calls for an increased geographical sensitivity in research when investigating the effects of rescaling, as the formal and practical outcomes of rescaling can be spatially unequal for planning bodies with similar formal mandates on the same scale. Thirdly, the development of governance relations and ‘tensions’ between new and old scales, are by no means static in time nor space, and calls for increased dialogue across planning scales to aid in the transition of responsibilities from the old to the new scale.

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  • Ida Andersson & Brita Hermelin, 2024. "Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(7), pages 1445-1463, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:32:y:2024:i:7:p:1445-1463
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2024.2341977
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