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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-19T14:43:14Z

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'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism, urban environment and temporary housing modules
'''''

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| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
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| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
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| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
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== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015 to Sweden, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during late 2015 was around 2000 in the municipality. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build provide housing and has also turned to the solution with temporary housing modules. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held an information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper described people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable. In Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, residents are accusing the not-yet-known-refugees to be potential rapists and murderers. Here, some residents are in favour of having a criminal biker-gang rather than housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal information and participation process when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure that is required for any temporary housing projects, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around Sweden has been burned down after the locations of the planned projects has been publicly known [5][6]. Because of this, most building projects for refugees are made with secrecy.

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As the introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is built up by several aspects. First is the acute need for these housing units with the high number of refugees from the war in Syria. Secondly, the sometimes very strong opposition by local residents requires special attention by planners. Thirdly, despite the first two issues, planners need to conduct all the normal procedures associated with urban planning development. This means that planners and municipalities are dealing with both social/cultural concerns and urban planning issues at the same time.

When information meetings and participatory are organised, planners thus needs to deal with everything from purely racist views towards refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, e.g. the location of houses and preservations of parks and playgrounds.

Adding to all this, open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing that is planned in the area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9]. This puts planners and municipalities in a very difficult and challenging situation.

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional urban planning and development discussions. Here, strong opinions and concerns regarding refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with complexity interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities have in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

Lastly, when approaching this kind of complicated and tense landscape democracy challenge, an important question to ask if this type of contested issues can be resolved at all. When looking at the very hard and often racist accusations towards refugees and strong oppositions to the project, it seems that a solution is very far away. One could argue that information meetings and participation methods is not meant to be use for solving these kinds of problems, rather to create an arena for discussion. The famous philosopher Chantal Mouffe (2007, 3) have this later view on conflict and argues that: “[…] the public space is the battleground where different hegemonic projects are confronted, whiteout any possibility of finial reconciliation”. Having this view when approaching complicated landscape democracy challenges, one could maybe use another approach where information and participation methods are used to create an arena where people listen to each other, while not trying to push one agenda or solution. However, as described above, this particular case is tense and complicated and there is a pressing need to find some way past the aggressive stage of discussion, whiteout that, the prospects for this landscape challenge does not look good.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it ranges several different types of issues at the same time, from racist accusations to urban planning issues. Furthermore, planners are face with an acute situation where housing modules needs to be built very quickly, but with the normal planning laws and procedures. Adding to all this, the lack of information due to security concerns further adds to the challenge for changing the situation.

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===

At this point, it is actually quite hard to se any starting point for democratically-based change. Major issues need to be resolved before this change can take place. In that case, a priority needs to be to resolve security issues, restrict access to meetings so that only local residents can participate and a focus from planning on how residents could be a part of improving projects.

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

[10] Mouffe, C. (2007). Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces. Art & Research, 1(2), 1-5

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-19T14:42:18Z

Emilb:

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism, urban environment and temporary housing modules
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

A multidimensional democracy challenge

Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015 to Sweden, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during late 2015 was around 2000 in the municipality. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build provide housing and has also turned to the solution with temporary housing modules. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held an information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper described people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable. In Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, residents are accusing the not-yet-known-refugees to be potential rapists and murderers. Here, some residents are in favour of having a criminal biker-gang rather than housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal information and participation process when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure that is required for any temporary housing projects, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around Sweden has been burned down after the locations of the planned projects has been publicly known [5][6]. Because of this, most building projects for refugees are made with secrecy.

Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension

As the introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is built up by several aspects. First is the acute need for these housing units with the high number of refugees from the war in Syria. Secondly, the sometimes very strong opposition by local residents requires special attention by planners. Thirdly, despite the first two issues, planners need to conduct all the normal procedures associated with urban planning development. This means that planners and municipalities are dealing with both social/cultural concerns and urban planning issues at the same time.

When information meetings and participatory are organised, planners thus needs to deal with everything from purely racist views towards refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, e.g. the location of houses and preservations of parks and playgrounds.

Adding to all this, open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing that is planned in the area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9]. This puts planners and municipalities in a very difficult and challenging situation.

Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional urban planning and development discussions. Here, strong opinions and concerns regarding refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with complexity interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities have in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

Lastly, when approaching this kind of complicated and tense landscape democracy challenge, an important question to ask if this type of contested issues can be resolved at all. When looking at the very hard and often racist accusations towards refugees and strong oppositions to the project, it seems that a solution is very far away. One could argue that information meetings and participation methods is not meant to be use for solving these kinds of problems, rather to create an arena for discussion. The famous philosopher Chantal Mouffe (2007, 3) have this later view on conflict and argues that: “[…] the public space is the battleground where different hegemonic projects are confronted, whiteout any possibility of finial reconciliation”. Having this view when approaching complicated landscape democracy challenges, one could maybe use another approach where information and participation methods are used to create an arena where people listen to each other, while not trying to push one agenda or solution. However, as described above, this particular case is tense and complicated and there is a pressing need to find some way past the aggressive stage of discussion, whiteout that, the prospects for this landscape challenge does not look good.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it ranges several different types of issues at the same time, from racist accusations to urban planning issues. Furthermore, planners are face with an acute situation where housing modules needs to be built very quickly, but with the normal planning laws and procedures. Adding to all this, the lack of information due to security concerns further adds to the challenge for changing the situation.

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===

At this point, it is actually quite hard to se any starting point for democratically-based change. Major issues need to be resolved before this change can take place. In that case, a priority needs to be to resolve security issues, restrict access to meetings so that only local residents can participate and a focus from planning on how residents could be a part of improving projects.

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

[10] Mouffe, C. (2007). Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces. Art & Research, 1(2), 1-5

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-19T14:41:32Z

Emilb: /* References */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

A multidimensional democracy challenge

Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015 to Sweden, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during late 2015 was around 2000 in the municipality. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build provide housing and has also turned to the solution with temporary housing modules. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held an information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper described people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable. In Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, residents are accusing the not-yet-known-refugees to be potential rapists and murderers. Here, some residents are in favour of having a criminal biker-gang rather than housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal information and participation process when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure that is required for any temporary housing projects, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around Sweden has been burned down after the locations of the planned projects has been publicly known [5][6]. Because of this, most building projects for refugees are made with secrecy.

Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension

As the introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is built up by several aspects. First is the acute need for these housing units with the high number of refugees from the war in Syria. Secondly, the sometimes very strong opposition by local residents requires special attention by planners. Thirdly, despite the first two issues, planners need to conduct all the normal procedures associated with urban planning development. This means that planners and municipalities are dealing with both social/cultural concerns and urban planning issues at the same time.

When information meetings and participatory are organised, planners thus needs to deal with everything from purely racist views towards refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, e.g. the location of houses and preservations of parks and playgrounds.

Adding to all this, open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing that is planned in the area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9]. This puts planners and municipalities in a very difficult and challenging situation.

Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional urban planning and development discussions. Here, strong opinions and concerns regarding refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with complexity interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities have in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

Lastly, when approaching this kind of complicated and tense landscape democracy challenge, an important question to ask if this type of contested issues can be resolved at all. When looking at the very hard and often racist accusations towards refugees and strong oppositions to the project, it seems that a solution is very far away. One could argue that information meetings and participation methods is not meant to be use for solving these kinds of problems, rather to create an arena for discussion. The famous philosopher Chantal Mouffe (2007, 3) have this later view on conflict and argues that: “[…] the public space is the battleground where different hegemonic projects are confronted, whiteout any possibility of finial reconciliation”. Having this view when approaching complicated landscape democracy challenges, one could maybe use another approach where information and participation methods are used to create an arena where people listen to each other, while not trying to push one agenda or solution. However, as described above, this particular case is tense and complicated and there is a pressing need to find some way past the aggressive stage of discussion, whiteout that, the prospects for this landscape challenge does not look good.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it ranges several different types of issues at the same time, from racist accusations to urban planning issues. Furthermore, planners are face with an acute situation where housing modules needs to be built very quickly, but with the normal planning laws and procedures. Adding to all this, the lack of information due to security concerns further adds to the challenge for changing the situation.

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===

At this point, it is actually quite hard to se any starting point for democratically-based change. Major issues need to be resolved before this change can take place. In that case, a priority needs to be to resolve security issues, restrict access to meetings so that only local residents can participate and a focus from planning on how residents could be a part of improving projects.

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

[10] Mouffe, C. (2007). Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces. Art & Research, 1(2), 1-5

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-19T14:41:14Z

Emilb: /* What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

A multidimensional democracy challenge

Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015 to Sweden, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during late 2015 was around 2000 in the municipality. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build provide housing and has also turned to the solution with temporary housing modules. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held an information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper described people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable. In Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, residents are accusing the not-yet-known-refugees to be potential rapists and murderers. Here, some residents are in favour of having a criminal biker-gang rather than housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal information and participation process when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure that is required for any temporary housing projects, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around Sweden has been burned down after the locations of the planned projects has been publicly known [5][6]. Because of this, most building projects for refugees are made with secrecy.

Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension

As the introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is built up by several aspects. First is the acute need for these housing units with the high number of refugees from the war in Syria. Secondly, the sometimes very strong opposition by local residents requires special attention by planners. Thirdly, despite the first two issues, planners need to conduct all the normal procedures associated with urban planning development. This means that planners and municipalities are dealing with both social/cultural concerns and urban planning issues at the same time.

When information meetings and participatory are organised, planners thus needs to deal with everything from purely racist views towards refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, e.g. the location of houses and preservations of parks and playgrounds.

Adding to all this, open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing that is planned in the area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9]. This puts planners and municipalities in a very difficult and challenging situation.

Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional urban planning and development discussions. Here, strong opinions and concerns regarding refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with complexity interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities have in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

Lastly, when approaching this kind of complicated and tense landscape democracy challenge, an important question to ask if this type of contested issues can be resolved at all. When looking at the very hard and often racist accusations towards refugees and strong oppositions to the project, it seems that a solution is very far away. One could argue that information meetings and participation methods is not meant to be use for solving these kinds of problems, rather to create an arena for discussion. The famous philosopher Chantal Mouffe (2007, 3) have this later view on conflict and argues that: “[…] the public space is the battleground where different hegemonic projects are confronted, whiteout any possibility of finial reconciliation”. Having this view when approaching complicated landscape democracy challenges, one could maybe use another approach where information and participation methods are used to create an arena where people listen to each other, while not trying to push one agenda or solution. However, as described above, this particular case is tense and complicated and there is a pressing need to find some way past the aggressive stage of discussion, whiteout that, the prospects for this landscape challenge does not look good.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it ranges several different types of issues at the same time, from racist accusations to urban planning issues. Furthermore, planners are face with an acute situation where housing modules needs to be built very quickly, but with the normal planning laws and procedures. Adding to all this, the lack of information due to security concerns further adds to the challenge for changing the situation.

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===

At this point, it is actually quite hard to se any starting point for democratically-based change. Major issues need to be resolved before this change can take place. In that case, a priority needs to be to resolve security issues, restrict access to meetings so that only local residents can participate and a focus from planning on how residents could be a part of improving projects.

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-19T14:40:57Z

Emilb: /* What are the major challenges for changing the situation? */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
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| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
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== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

A multidimensional democracy challenge

Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015 to Sweden, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during late 2015 was around 2000 in the municipality. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build provide housing and has also turned to the solution with temporary housing modules. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held an information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper described people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable. In Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, residents are accusing the not-yet-known-refugees to be potential rapists and murderers. Here, some residents are in favour of having a criminal biker-gang rather than housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal information and participation process when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure that is required for any temporary housing projects, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around Sweden has been burned down after the locations of the planned projects has been publicly known [5][6]. Because of this, most building projects for refugees are made with secrecy.

Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension

As the introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is built up by several aspects. First is the acute need for these housing units with the high number of refugees from the war in Syria. Secondly, the sometimes very strong opposition by local residents requires special attention by planners. Thirdly, despite the first two issues, planners need to conduct all the normal procedures associated with urban planning development. This means that planners and municipalities are dealing with both social/cultural concerns and urban planning issues at the same time.

When information meetings and participatory are organised, planners thus needs to deal with everything from purely racist views towards refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, e.g. the location of houses and preservations of parks and playgrounds.

Adding to all this, open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing that is planned in the area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9]. This puts planners and municipalities in a very difficult and challenging situation.

Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional urban planning and development discussions. Here, strong opinions and concerns regarding refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with complexity interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities have in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

Lastly, when approaching this kind of complicated and tense landscape democracy challenge, an important question to ask if this type of contested issues can be resolved at all. When looking at the very hard and often racist accusations towards refugees and strong oppositions to the project, it seems that a solution is very far away. One could argue that information meetings and participation methods is not meant to be use for solving these kinds of problems, rather to create an arena for discussion. The famous philosopher Chantal Mouffe (2007, 3) have this later view on conflict and argues that: “[…] the public space is the battleground where different hegemonic projects are confronted, whiteout any possibility of finial reconciliation”. Having this view when approaching complicated landscape democracy challenges, one could maybe use another approach where information and participation methods are used to create an arena where people listen to each other, while not trying to push one agenda or solution. However, as described above, this particular case is tense and complicated and there is a pressing need to find some way past the aggressive stage of discussion, whiteout that, the prospects for this landscape challenge does not look good.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it ranges several different types of issues at the same time, from racist accusations to urban planning issues. Furthermore, planners are face with an acute situation where housing modules needs to be built very quickly, but with the normal planning laws and procedures. Adding to all this, the lack of information due to security concerns further adds to the challenge for changing the situation.

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-19T14:40:23Z

Emilb: /* Representation of your observations */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

A multidimensional democracy challenge

Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015 to Sweden, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during late 2015 was around 2000 in the municipality. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build provide housing and has also turned to the solution with temporary housing modules. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held an information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper described people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable. In Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, residents are accusing the not-yet-known-refugees to be potential rapists and murderers. Here, some residents are in favour of having a criminal biker-gang rather than housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal information and participation process when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure that is required for any temporary housing projects, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around Sweden has been burned down after the locations of the planned projects has been publicly known [5][6]. Because of this, most building projects for refugees are made with secrecy.

Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension

As the introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is built up by several aspects. First is the acute need for these housing units with the high number of refugees from the war in Syria. Secondly, the sometimes very strong opposition by local residents requires special attention by planners. Thirdly, despite the first two issues, planners need to conduct all the normal procedures associated with urban planning development. This means that planners and municipalities are dealing with both social/cultural concerns and urban planning issues at the same time.

When information meetings and participatory are organised, planners thus needs to deal with everything from purely racist views towards refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, e.g. the location of houses and preservations of parks and playgrounds.

Adding to all this, open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing that is planned in the area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9]. This puts planners and municipalities in a very difficult and challenging situation.

Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional urban planning and development discussions. Here, strong opinions and concerns regarding refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with complexity interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities have in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

Lastly, when approaching this kind of complicated and tense landscape democracy challenge, an important question to ask if this type of contested issues can be resolved at all. When looking at the very hard and often racist accusations towards refugees and strong oppositions to the project, it seems that a solution is very far away. One could argue that information meetings and participation methods is not meant to be use for solving these kinds of problems, rather to create an arena for discussion. The famous philosopher Chantal Mouffe (2007, 3) have this later view on conflict and argues that: “[…] the public space is the battleground where different hegemonic projects are confronted, whiteout any possibility of finial reconciliation”. Having this view when approaching complicated landscape democracy challenges, one could maybe use another approach where information and participation methods are used to create an arena where people listen to each other, while not trying to push one agenda or solution. However, as described above, this particular case is tense and complicated and there is a pressing need to find some way past the aggressive stage of discussion, whiteout that, the prospects for this landscape challenge does not look good.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-19T14:39:43Z

Emilb: /* Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-18T05:23:00Z

Emilb: /* Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.

This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.

The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-18T05:22:39Z

Emilb: /* Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of arriving refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the county of Stockholm are therefore planning for temporary housing modules to be constructed around the city. This has in many municipalities resulted in protests from local residents.
This landscape democracy challenge is complex as it involves both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. Municipalities and planners have to navigate both purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also deal with the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts.
The two different sides of this challenge, the urban built environment when constructing temporary housing units and the concerns over refugees in general, has to be dealt with by planners. However, these issues are in reality hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex landscape democracy challenge for municipalities and planners.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-18T04:59:21Z

Emilb:

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:Temporary_housing2.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the greater Stockholm area are thus planning temporary housing units to be constructed around the city. This has resulted in protests from local residents. This complex issue involves both concerns about the refugees moving in and the built environment. The challenges thus involved both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. The municipalities and their planners thus must both navigate purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts. These different issues are in reality sometimes hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex and important landscape democracy challenge.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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File:Temporary housing2.jpg

2016-05-18T04:58:27Z

Emilb:

LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-18T04:57:36Z

Emilb: /* Representation of your observations */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:unknownlandscapelocation.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the greater Stockholm area are thus planning temporary housing units to be constructed around the city. This has resulted in protests from local residents. This complex issue involves both concerns about the refugees moving in and the built environment. The challenges thus involved both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. The municipalities and their planners thus must both navigate purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts. These different issues are in reality sometimes hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex and important landscape democracy challenge.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Temporary_housing1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-17T20:07:20Z

Emilb: /* Representation of your observations */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

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| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:unknownlandscapelocation.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the greater Stockholm area are thus planning temporary housing units to be constructed around the city. This has resulted in protests from local residents. This complex issue involves both concerns about the refugees moving in and the built environment. The challenges thus involved both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. The municipalities and their planners thus must both navigate purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts. These different issues are in reality sometimes hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex and important landscape democracy challenge.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going through the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:ref_modular_1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-17T19:56:52Z

Emilb: /* Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? */

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:unknownlandscapelocation.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the greater Stockholm area are thus planning temporary housing units to be constructed around the city. This has resulted in protests from local residents. This complex issue involves both concerns about the refugees moving in and the built environment. The challenges thus involved both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. The municipalities and their planners thus must both navigate purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts. These different issues are in reality sometimes hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex and important landscape democracy challenge.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going trough the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:ref_modular_1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-17T19:18:09Z

Emilb:

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:unknownlandscapelocation.jpg|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the greater Stockholm area are thus planning temporary housing units to be constructed around the city. This has resulted in protests from local residents. This complex issue involves both concerns about the refugees moving in and the built environment. The challenges thus involved both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. The municipalities and their planners thus must both navigate purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts. These different issues are in realty sometimes hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex and important landscape democracy challenge.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going trough the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:ref_modular_1.jpg|Chart of the issues
</gallery>

== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

----
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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-17T19:17:33Z

Emilb:

'''--> [[LED_Online_Seminar_2016_-_Working_Group_H|back to your group page]]'''

'''''Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
'''''

{| align="right" width="250pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Place name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Unknown and secret temporary places''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Stockholm''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Sweden''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Emil Buzzi''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[File:unknownlandscapelocation.jpgl|250px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"|
|}

== Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? ==
In a fairly large city as Stockholm, landscape democracy challenges are up for discussion every day. The urban landscape is constantly challenged in a myriad of ways. Recently however, a new complex challenge has emerged. With a high number of refugees in Sweden during the fall of 2015, the government has asked municipalities to provide housing for those seeking asylum. Municipalities in the greater Stockholm area are thus planning temporary housing units to be constructed around the city. This has resulted in protests from local residents. This complex issue involves both concerns about the refugees moving in and the built environment. The challenges thus involved both social issues concerning refugees in general to the physical built landscapes in the neighbourhoods where temporary houses are planned. The municipalities and their planners thus must both navigate purely racist protests when a new project is advertised and also the concerns over the urban environment when they arrange information and participation efforts. These different issues are in realty sometimes hard to separate, thus resulting in a complex and important landscape democracy challenge.

== Representation of your observations ==

'''A multidimensional democracy challenge'''

'''Modular housing in Stockholm-municipalities'''

As a consequence of the influx of refugees during 2015, municipalities in the county of Stockholm are required to accommodate housing for refugees that can not find their own housing. However, important to note is that a majority of refugees moving to Stockholm municipality arrange their housing themselves [1]. During 2016, the municipality of Stockholm needs to arrange housing for 2800 refugees as well as housing for unaccompanied refugee children that during the fall of 2015 was 2000. The municipality of Stockholm is thus under pressure to quickly construct temporary housing modules in different locations around the city [2][3]. Other municipalities in the county of Stockholm are also required to build modular housing. One example is the municipality of Botkyrka that are building 44 modular housing units. The municipality of Botkyrka held a information-meeting for residents in the area where the houses are planned and the local newspaper is describing people attending the meeting as upset but relatively calm and reasonable, comparing to the latest developments in Nacka, another Stockholm municipality, where residents are accusing the not yet known refugees to be potential rapists and murderers, where residents are proposing the criminal biker-gangs are preferred over housing for refugees [4].

Furthermore, as municipalities are dealing with issues of social concerns from the local residents, they are in parallel working with the formal process of information and participation when building and obtaining all permits for the temporary housing units. The municipality of Stockholm is going trough the normal procedure for building temporary houses, but have made the documents secret due to the threat-level towards this kind of housing [1]. During the fall of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, planned housing for refugees around the country has been burned down after the locations of the planned housing has been publicly known [5][6]

'''Social concerns or urban planning? Complexity and tension'''

As introduction above to the situation of temporary housing projects in different Stockholm municipalities suggests, the planning for these temporary modular houses is complex. The complexity is not only due to the acute need for these houses and the strong opposition towards them in certain localities, but also the multidimensional aspects of the situation. The municipalities and the planners are dealing with social and cultural concerns and urban planning concerns at the same time. This means that planners need to deal with two very different streams of issues when projecting the housing and localities where they are placed. The issues in the information and participatory process thus involves everything from purely racist views on refugees, to valid moderate concerns, to purely urban planning concerns, as the location of houses and preservation of parks and playgrounds.

Furthermore, the open-meetings arranged for local residents has in several cases been visited by violent nazi-organisations who have raised racist comments by arguing that women and children are in danger if refugees are allowed to reside in the temporary housing in the local area. These nazi-organisations has during meetings been both argued against and backed by local residents during meetings [7][8][9].

'''Dealing with this Landscape Democracy Challenge'''

The description of this Landscape Democracy Challenge is far from away from traditional discussion on urban planning and development. Here, strong opinions and concerns towards refugees are mixed with issues of urban planning. For municipalities and planners responsible for the planning of temporary modular housing for refugees, they are challenged with a complexity in their interaction with the public. Planners need to both interact in their normal sphere, discussing the position of the modules and the places they need to use for building, but also far outside their normal zone of work, dealing with concerns and strong acquisitions towards the refugees that are planned to move in to the temporary modules. Furthermore, as these housing projects are under threat, municipalities has in some cases decided to make the document secret, thus adding another challenge to the discussion as residents can not fully discuss the places where the houses are planned as they only give an indication of the area.

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== Reflection ==
=== What are the major challenges for changing the situation? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

=== What could be a starting point for democractically-based change? ===
*''Please add approx. 150 words in essay style''

== References ==
[1] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/ &lowast;

[2] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Temporara-boenden-i--staden/ &lowast;

[3] http://www.stockholm.se/FamiljOmsorg/Socialt-och-ekonomiskt-stod/Flyktingmottagande/Boende/Fragor-och-svar-om-temporara-boenden-for-flyktingar/ &lowast;

[4] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/hard-kritik-men-inget-kaos-pa-modulhusmote-i-tumba/aRKpei!us8eUokkGtE3f6TVMsaWQw/ &lowast;&lowast;

[5] http://www.svd.se/samordningen-avbruten--men-branderna-fortsatter &lowast;&lowast;

[6] http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3%B6ver-40-asylboenden-har-brunnit-1.179215 &lowast;&lowast;

[7] http://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/nazister-storde-oppet-mote-i-bjorkhagen/aRKoiD!Y6IxrLyDU0Qy2xCtYIuYDQ/ &lowast;&lowast;

[8] http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/haninge-kommuns-mote-slutade-i-kaos/ &lowast;&lowast;

[9] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/mote-om-ensamkommande-flyktingar-sparade-ur/ &lowast;&lowast;

Comments regarding the non-english references to this work:

&lowast; This is the official website of the municipality of Stockholm with information regarding temporary housing units for refugees

&lowast;&lowast; All media links are from well-known and established local and national press

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LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

2016-05-16T17:15:24Z

Emilb: /* Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar? */

LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

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Emilb:

LED Online Seminar 2016 - Working Group H

2016-05-15T17:21:16Z

Emilb: /* Your Landscape Democracy Challenges */

'''--> Back to [[LED_Online_Seminar_Working_Groups_2016|working group overview]]'''

''Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!''

== Assignment 1 - Reading and Synthesizing Core Terminology ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_1:_Reading_and_Synthesizing_Core_Terminology|here]]
*Readings are accessible via the [[Resources_and_Literature_Landscape_and_Democracy|resources page]]

=== Step 1 - Define your readings ===
*Please add your readings selection for the terminology exercise before '''25th of April''' on the [[LED Online Seminar 2016 Groups Readings Selection Page|readings selection page]].

=== Step 2 - Concept mapping of core terms ===
*Please add here the link to your concept map on the Cmaps cloud. You will receive an invitation to the cloud per e-mail.

=== Step 3 - Reporting ===
*Please write, as a group, a 250 words reflection on your concept mapping process
*[[Group H Reflections on Readings, LED Seminar 2016|Group reflection on the readings - add them here]]

== Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_2:_Your_Landscape_Symbols|here]]
*There is an own page for this assignment, please click to find further details
*'''go to --> [[LED Seminar 2016 - Landscape Symbols Reflection Group H |Landscape Symbols Reflection Group H]]'''

=== Presentation slides 'Your Landscape Symbols' ===
''After the presentation on '''April 21''' please save your PPT slides to jpgs, upload them and add them to this gallery:''

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== Assignment 3 - Role Play on Landscape Democracy "movers and shakers" ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_3:_Role_Play_on_Landscape_Democracy_"movers_and_shakers"|here]]

== Assignment 4 - Your Landscape Democracy Challenge ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_4:_Your_Landscape_Democracy_Challenge|here]]
*Each group member will specify a landscape democracy challenge in his/her environment

=== Your Landscape Democracy Challenges ===
* '''[[LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 1|Landscape Democracy Challenge 1]]'''
* '''[[LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 2|Nicolas Reibel - Polytechnic Neighborhood Gliwice, Poland]]'''
* '''[[LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 3|Emil Buzzi - Refugee housing in Stockholm – racism or valid concerns? A multidimensional democracy challenge
]]'''
* '''[[LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 4|Landscape Democracy Challenge 4]]'''
* '''[[LED 2016 Group H Landscape Democracy Challenge 5|Landscape Democracy Challenge 5]]'''

=== Presentation slides 'Your Landscape Democracy Challenges' ===
''After the presentation on '''May 19''' please save your PPT slides to jpgs, upload them and add them to this gallery:''

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== Assignment 5 - Your Democratic Change Process ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Your Democratic Change Process|here]]
*After documenting and reflecting on your challenges you will continue jointly with one of these challenges and design a democratic change process

=== Your Democratic Change Model ===
* '''[[LED 2016 Group H Democratic Change Process|Your democractic change process]]'''

=== Presentation slides 'Your Democractic Change Process' ===
''After the presentation on '''June 16''' please save your PPT slides to jpgs, upload them and add them to this gallery:''

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'Mover and Shaker' Selection List

2016-04-28T17:23:41Z

Emilb: /* Henry Sanoff (Planning Games) */

'''Back to ---> [[Assignment_3:_Role_Play_on_Landscape_Democracy_"movers_and_shakers"|Assignment 3]]'''

* Please add your name to the 'Mover and Shaker' you would like to role play
* In order to achieve some diversity each 'Mover and Shaker' should be selected by not more than three participants

== Randy Hester (UC Berkeley, Manteo, Big Wild, The Spoonbill project) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Lawrence (Larry) Halprin, (The RSVP cycle, Levi’s Plaza and Headquarters) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Karl Linn (UC Berkeley, Community Gardens) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Mark Francis (Village homes) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Anne Spirn (Mill Creek Project) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Ken Reardon (University of Memphis, the East Saint Louis Project) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Jan Gehl (‘Life between buildings’, how to study public life) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Henry Sanoff (Planning Games) ==
* Emil Buzzi
* add your name
* add your name

== Ralph Erskine (Byker Redevelopment) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Jeff Hou (Insurgent Urbanism, International district in Seattle) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Walter Hood (UC Berkeley, Lafayette Park Oakland, CA) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name
== Samuel Mockbee (The Rural Studio) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== James Rojas (place-it) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== ReBar (Parking day/parklets) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Giancarlo De Carlo (Team 10, Legitimizing architecture) ==
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

== Paula Horrigan (Cornell University; Rust to Green project) ==
* Elena Forapani
* add your name
* add your name

== Christopher Alexander (The Oregon Experiment, Pattern Language) ==
* Daniela Ellis
* add your name
* add your name

== Julian Petrin et al., Hamburg (nexthamburg, German only) ==
[http://www.nexthamburg.de/ Next Hamburg]

* Vera Hausmanns
* add your name
* add your name

== Leonie Sandercock (University of British Columbia, Collingwood Neighbourhood House) ==
* Tonje Cecilie Stordalen
* add your name
* add your name

== Klaus Overmeyer (Urban Catalyst Studio) ==
[http://www.urbancatalyst-studio.de/en/news.html Urban Catalyst]
* add your name
* add your name
* add your name

LED Online Seminar 2016 Groups Readings Selection Page

2016-04-28T06:39:30Z

Emilb: /* Reading Selection Group H */

'''--> Back to [[LED_Online_Seminar_Working_Groups_2016|working group overview]]'''

'''--> Back to [[Resources_and_Literature_Landscape_and_Democracy|literature overview]]'''

*''Please add your reading selections per group per topic, minimum: one selection per topic for the [[Assignment_1:_Reading_and_Synthesizing_Core_Terminology|terminology exercise]]''

== Reading Selection Group A ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:

* Landscape Concepts:
* [HD] "Reading the landscape. An appreciation of W.G. Hoskins and J-B. Jackson
* Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* [HD] Hester, Randolph (1999): A Refrain with a View,
'''C: Community and Identity'''
* PF: Spirn, Anne (2005): Restoring Mill Creek

'''D: The Design Process'''
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities

'''E: Communication'''
* ''add your selection''

== Reading Selection Group B ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions: ''add your selection''
* Landscape Concepts: Meinig, D. W. (1979): "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press
* Burckhardt, Lucius (1974): Who plans the planning? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* ''Hester, Randolph (2006). Design of Ecological Democracy'':

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''add your selection'':

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands''

== Reading Selection Group C ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* '''Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions''':
* DE: The Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
* NT: The European Landscape Convention
* HO: The European Landscape Convention
* '''Landscape Concepts''':
* DE: Meinig, D. W. (1979): "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene." In: The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays, edited by D. W. Meinig and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 33-48. New York: Oxford University Press.
* DE: Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press.
* NT: Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City
* HO: Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
* HO: Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City
'''B: Concepts of Participation''':
* DE: Hester, Randolph (1999): A Refrain with a View, UC Berkeley
* NT: Hester, Randolph (2012): Evaluating Community Design, Landscape Journal
* HO: Burckhardt, Lucius (1957): Urban Planning and Democracy in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
'''C: Community and Identity''':
* DE: Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.
* HO: Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.
'''D: The Design Process''':
* DE: Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
* DE: Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design
* NT: Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile
* HO: Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
'''E: Communication''':
* DE: Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands

== Reading Selection Group D ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:'''
* [JS] The European Landscape Convention

'''* Landscape Concepts:'''
* [TH] JB Jackson (1980): The necessity for ruins and other topics, 113-126.

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* [TH] Consensus Design by Christopher Day (2002)''
* [JS] Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts
* [EN] Landscape and sustainability, theme 2: Social learning, rights and responsibilities

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* [EF] Culture and Changing Landscape Structure

'''D: The Design Process'''
* [EN] Design for social sustainability, a framework for creating a thriving new communities

'''E: Communication'''
* [JS] Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu

== Reading Selection Group E ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:

* ''Kjersti: Presentation of the report Landscape and democracy: prospects by Yves Luginbühl for the Council of Europe''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'The Aarhus Convention':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Landscape Democracy Resolution(IFLA-Europe)

* Landscape Concepts:

* ''Kjersti: Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts
* ''Kjersti: David, Harvey (2003): The Right to the City + LIFEscape Handbook on Participative Landscape Planning'':

'''C: Community and Identity'''

* ''Kjersti: SEISMIC project, An urban research and innovation project across 10 European countries'':

* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy, The MIT Press

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities
* ''Kjersti: Ruggeri, Deni (2004): Crafting Westport + Hussain, Sofia, et al. (2012): Participatory Design with Marginalized People in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunties Experienced in a Field Study in Cambodia'':

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': 'Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu

* ''Kjersti: online decisionmaking with Loomio'':

== Reading Selection Group F ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions''':
* ''Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive''
'''Landscape Concepts''':
* ''Cosgrove, Denis. (1985): Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1985),pp. 45-62. Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).''
* ''Kucan, Ana (2007). Constructing Landscape Conceptions. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA spring 2007, 30-41. Munich: Callwey.''
* '''''(TG)''' Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)''
* ''Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press.''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* '''''(TG)''' Burckhardt, Lucius (1957): Urban Planning and Democracy in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
* ''Hester, Randolph (2012): Evaluating Community Design, Landscape Journal'':
* ''Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press''
* ''David, Harvey (2003): The Right to the City, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 939–941''

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* '''''(TG)''' Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.
* ''Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014'':
* ''Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.''

'''D: The Design Process'''
* '''''(TG)''' Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
* ''Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities'':
* ''Woodcraft, Saffron, et al.: Design for Social Sustainability: A Framework for Creating Thriving New Communities''
* ''Salgado, Mariana, et al. (2015): Designing with Immigrants''

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Reading the Landscape by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu'':

== Reading Selection Group G ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:'''
* ''The Aarhus Convention'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''
* ''The European landscape convention''
* ''Directive on public access to environmental information'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Directive providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive''
* ''Water Framework Directive''

'''* Landscape Concepts:'''
* ''Concepts of Landscape'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* ''Hester, Randolph (2005): Whose Politics, Landscape Architecture'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''
* ''Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts''
* ''Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Furco, Andrew (1996): Service-learning: A balanced approach to experiential education'' '''(Everybody)'''

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* ''Gafford, Farrah D. (2013): It Was a Real Village: Community Identity Formation Among Black Middle-Class Residents in Pontchartrain Park, Journal of Urban History 39:36'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''
* ''Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Kot, Douglas and Ruggeri, Deni: Westport Case Study''
* ''Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness" '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Online decision making with loomio'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''

== Reading Selection Group H ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:'''
* ''(MG) EU"Directive providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment"''
* '''(NR)''' "IFLA-Europe: Landscape Democracy Resolution"
* (ST) Council of Europe - The European Landscape Convention
* '''(RR)'''''European Union (Parliament and Council), ''Water Framework Directive''''
* "(EB) European Charter on Participatory Democracy (under consultation)"

'''Landscape Concepts:'''
* ''(MG) Antrop, Marc; Kühne, Olaf (2015) Concepts of Landscape, in: Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes. The Differentiated Construction of Landscapes (Bruns, Kühne, Schönwald, Theile ed.)''
* '''(RR)'''''Jackson, John Brinckerhoff (1980): "By way of conclusion. How to study the landscape" In: The necessity for ruins, and other topics, 113-126. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.'':
* '''(NR)''' Meinig, D. W. (1979): "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene"
* (EB) ''Olwig, Kenneth R. (1996): "Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
*''(MG) Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press''
* '''(NR)''' Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts
* '''(RR)''' Hester, Randolph (2012): Evaluating Community Design, Landscape Journal
* "(EB) David, Harvey (2003): The Right to the City"

'''C: Community and Identity'''
*''(MG) Girling, Cynthia (2006): Informing Design Charrettes, The Integrated Assessment Journal
* '''(NR)''' Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy
* '''(RR)'''Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.
*"(EB) Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure"

'''D: The Design Process'''
*''(MG) D’hondt, Frank (2014): Better Cities for Kosovo: Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool,UN-Habitat report
* '''(NR)''' Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design
* '''(RR)'''Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities
*"(EB) Hussain, Sofia, et al. (2012): Participatory Design with Marginalized People in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunties Experienced in a Field Study in Cambodia"

'''E: Communication'''
* ''(MG) Online decision making with loomio
* '''(NR)''' Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands
*"(EB)'Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu"

== Reading Selection Group I ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions: ''
**(ST)Council of Europe - The European Landscape Convention''
* Landscape Concepts: ''add your selection''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* ''add your selection'':

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* ''AJ: A case study method for Landscape architecture ''

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''LP: Design for Social Sustainability''
* ''AJ: Designe Charrette- a vechicle for consultation or collaboration ''
* ''SS: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Places in the Making- How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities''

'''E: Communication'''
* ''AJ: Reading the landscape ''
* ''add your selection'':

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*''Please add your reading selections per group per topic, minimum: one selection per topic for the [[Assignment_1:_Reading_and_Synthesizing_Core_Terminology|terminology exercise]]''

== Reading Selection Group A ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:

* Landscape Concepts:
* [HD] "Reading the landscape. An appreciation of W.G. Hoskins and J-B. Jackson
* Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* [HD] Hester, Randolph (1999): A Refrain with a View,
'''C: Community and Identity'''
* PF: Spirn, Anne (2005): Restoring Mill Creek

'''D: The Design Process'''
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities

'''E: Communication'''
* ''add your selection''

== Reading Selection Group B ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions: ''add your selection''
* Landscape Concepts: Meinig, D. W. (1979): "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press
* Burckhardt, Lucius (1974): Who plans the planning? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* ''Hester, Randolph (2006). Design of Ecological Democracy'':

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''add your selection'':

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands''

== Reading Selection Group C ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* '''Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions''':
* DE: The Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
* NT: The European Landscape Convention
* HO: The European Landscape Convention
* '''Landscape Concepts''':
* DE: Meinig, D. W. (1979): "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene." In: The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays, edited by D. W. Meinig and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 33-48. New York: Oxford University Press.
* DE: Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press.
* NT: Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City
* HO: Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
* HO: Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City
'''B: Concepts of Participation''':
* DE: Hester, Randolph (1999): A Refrain with a View, UC Berkeley
* NT: Hester, Randolph (2012): Evaluating Community Design, Landscape Journal
* HO: Burckhardt, Lucius (1957): Urban Planning and Democracy in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
'''C: Community and Identity''':
* DE: Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.
* HO: Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.
'''D: The Design Process''':
* DE: Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
* DE: Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design
* NT: Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile
* HO: Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
'''E: Communication''':
* DE: Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands

== Reading Selection Group D ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:'''
* [JS] The European Landscape Convention

'''* Landscape Concepts:'''
* [TH] JB Jackson (1980): The necessity for ruins and other topics, 113-126.

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* [TH] Consensus Design by Christopher Day (2002)''
* [JS] Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts
* [EN] Landscape and sustainability, theme 2: Social learning, rights and responsibilities

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* [EF] Culture and Changing Landscape Structure

'''D: The Design Process'''
* [EN] Design for social sustainability, a framework for creating a thriving new communities

'''E: Communication'''
* [JS] Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu

== Reading Selection Group E ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:

* ''Kjersti: Presentation of the report Landscape and democracy: prospects by Yves Luginbühl for the Council of Europe''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'The Aarhus Convention':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Landscape Democracy Resolution(IFLA-Europe)

* Landscape Concepts:

* ''Kjersti: Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts
* ''Kjersti: David, Harvey (2003): The Right to the City + LIFEscape Handbook on Participative Landscape Planning'':

'''C: Community and Identity'''

* ''Kjersti: SEISMIC project, An urban research and innovation project across 10 European countries'':

* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy, The MIT Press

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities
* ''Kjersti: Ruggeri, Deni (2004): Crafting Westport + Hussain, Sofia, et al. (2012): Participatory Design with Marginalized People in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunties Experienced in a Field Study in Cambodia'':

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Joseph: '':
* ''Davide: 'Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands':
* ''Gabriela: '':
* ''Sanaz: '': 'Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu

* ''Kjersti: online decisionmaking with Loomio'':

== Reading Selection Group F ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions''':
* ''Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive''
'''Landscape Concepts''':
* ''Cosgrove, Denis. (1985): Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1985),pp. 45-62. Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).''
* ''Kucan, Ana (2007). Constructing Landscape Conceptions. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA spring 2007, 30-41. Munich: Callwey.''
* '''''(TG)''' Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)''
* ''Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press.''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* '''''(TG)''' Burckhardt, Lucius (1957): Urban Planning and Democracy in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
* ''Hester, Randolph (2012): Evaluating Community Design, Landscape Journal'':
* ''Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press''
* ''David, Harvey (2003): The Right to the City, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 939–941''

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* '''''(TG)''' Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.
* ''Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014'':
* ''Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.''

'''D: The Design Process'''
* '''''(TG)''' Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
* ''Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities'':
* ''Woodcraft, Saffron, et al.: Design for Social Sustainability: A Framework for Creating Thriving New Communities''
* ''Salgado, Mariana, et al. (2015): Designing with Immigrants''

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Reading the Landscape by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu'':

== Reading Selection Group G ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:'''
* ''The Aarhus Convention'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''
* ''The European landscape convention''
* ''Directive on public access to environmental information'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Directive providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive''
* ''Water Framework Directive''

'''* Landscape Concepts:'''
* ''Concepts of Landscape'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* ''Hester, Randolph (2005): Whose Politics, Landscape Architecture'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''
* ''Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts''
* ''Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Furco, Andrew (1996): Service-learning: A balanced approach to experiential education'' '''(Everybody)'''

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* ''Gafford, Farrah D. (2013): It Was a Real Village: Community Identity Formation Among Black Middle-Class Residents in Pontchartrain Park, Journal of Urban History 39:36'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''
* ''Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Kot, Douglas and Ruggeri, Deni: Westport Case Study''
* ''Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness" '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''

'''E: Communication'''
* ''Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands'' '''(Tonje Cecilie Stordalen)'''
* ''Online decision making with loomio'' '''(Guido Maria Amorati)'''

== Reading Selection Group H ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''

'''Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions:'''
* ''(MG) EU"Directive providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment"''
* '''(NR)''' "IFLA-Europe: Landscape Democracy Resolution"
* (ST) Council of Europe - The European Landscape Convention
* '''(RR)'''''European Union (Parliament and Council), ''Water Framework Directive''''
* "(EB) European Charter on Participatory Democracy (under consultation)"

'''Landscape Concepts:'''
* ''(MG) Antrop, Marc; Kühne, Olaf (2015) Concepts of Landscape, in: Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes. The Differentiated Construction of Landscapes (Bruns, Kühne, Schönwald, Theile ed.)''
* '''(RR)'''''Jackson, John Brinckerhoff (1980): "By way of conclusion. How to study the landscape" In: The necessity for ruins, and other topics, 113-126. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.'':
* '''(NR)''' Meinig, D. W. (1979): "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene"
* (EB) ''Olwig, Kenneth R. (1996): "Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
*''(MG) Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design, Architectural Press''
* '''(NR)''' Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts
* '''(RR)''' Hester, Randolph (2012): Evaluating Community Design, Landscape Journal
* "(EB) David, Harvey (2003): The Right to the City"

'''C: Community and Identity'''
*''(MG) Girling, Cynthia (2006): Informing Design Charrettes, The Integrated Assessment Journal
* '''(NR)''' Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy
* '''(RR)'''Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.
*"(EB) Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure"

'''D: The Design Process'''
*''(MG) D’hondt, Frank (2014): Better Cities for Kosovo: Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool,UN-Habitat report
* '''(NR)''' Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design
* '''(RR)'''Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities
*"(EB) Hussain, Sofia, et al. (2012): Participatory Design with Marginalized People in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunties Experienced in a Field Study in Cambodia"

'''E: Communication'''
* ''(MG) Online decision making with loomio
* '''(NR)''' Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands

== Reading Selection Group I ==
'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions: ''
**(ST)Council of Europe - The European Landscape Convention''
* Landscape Concepts: ''add your selection''

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
* ''add your selection'':

'''C: Community and Identity'''
* ''AJ: A case study method for Landscape architecture ''

'''D: The Design Process'''
* ''LP: Design for Social Sustainability''
* ''AJ: Designe Charrette- a vechicle for consultation or collaboration ''
* ''SS: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Places in the Making- How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities''

'''E: Communication'''
* ''AJ: Reading the landscape ''
* ''add your selection'':