TY - JOUR
T1 - The suburban ethics of care
T2 - Caring for shared spaces in suburban regeneration
AU - Lundman, Riina
AU - Kymäläinen, Päivi
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the editor and anonymous reviewers, along with our colleagues in the JUSTSPACES Research Network, for their valuable insights and comments concerning our study. Moreover, we thank Jenni Kuoppa for her work with data acquisition. Our special gratitude goes to the interviewed suburban care-givers in Kontula. The paper is part of The Right to Suburban Space research project that belongs to the Finnish Ministry of the Environment's Neighbourhood Programme (2020−2022). The study is funded by the Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland (ARA).
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PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - The future of suburbs is a debated issue. This paper discusses the questions of care during suburban regeneration in the Nordic context, with an emphasis on shared spaces. The empirical research was conducted in the suburban housing estate of Kontula, in Helsinki, Finland. Theoretically, the study is based on the geographies of care and responsibility together with the ethics of care that is interpreted from a spatial perspective. The questions addressed are how (or if) care for shared spaces manifests in suburban strategies, plans, and regeneration projects, and how these caring notions relate to the views of the suburban care-givers interviewed in the study. As a result, the concept of the suburban ethics of care is proposed to describe how suburbs and their changing environments can be approached in a caring manner. The discussion indicates how the suburban ethics of care is a normative, relational, processual, spatial, and political concept and practice.
AB - The future of suburbs is a debated issue. This paper discusses the questions of care during suburban regeneration in the Nordic context, with an emphasis on shared spaces. The empirical research was conducted in the suburban housing estate of Kontula, in Helsinki, Finland. Theoretically, the study is based on the geographies of care and responsibility together with the ethics of care that is interpreted from a spatial perspective. The questions addressed are how (or if) care for shared spaces manifests in suburban strategies, plans, and regeneration projects, and how these caring notions relate to the views of the suburban care-givers interviewed in the study. As a result, the concept of the suburban ethics of care is proposed to describe how suburbs and their changing environments can be approached in a caring manner. The discussion indicates how the suburban ethics of care is a normative, relational, processual, spatial, and political concept and practice.
KW - Ethics of care
KW - Finland
KW - Shared spaces
KW - Suburban regeneration
KW - Suburbs
U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104528
DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104528
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85167619263
SN - 0264-2751
VL - 141
JO - Cities
JF - Cities
M1 - 104528
ER -