Ny artikel om Plantänkandets kontinuitet i svensk planpolitik

2007 Andreaz Strömgren, "Plantänkandets kontinuitet i svensk planpolitik", Tidskriften PLAN, nr 2, s. 33-36.

Abstract
A common assertion in Swedish and international research is that the concept of planning has changed radically over the past 60 years. The rational planning concept of the post-war period has disappeared or been marginalized, replaced since the 1970s by a reactive approach, where public authorities work side by side with the business community and citizens to accomplish rather marginal social changes. The phenomenon has been called negotiative planning, communicative planning or even postmodern planning. Andreaz Strömgren feels this assertion has some substance in the international planning debate, but that it is misleading in a Swedish context. The Swedish government's right to regulate spatial planning is characterized by stability and continuity rather than marginalization. It may be that in actual concrete planning, we have abandoned the rational model for more market-adapted solutions and negotiative and dialog planning. But the laws and ordinances regulating the activities are intact and well integrated within the mindset of planning as a rational decision process. The relevant question for the future is therefore how big a difference we should allow between the rhetoric of planning policy and the actual municipal planning practice.