Contested waterfront transformations: Renegotiating social inclusion within the financialized urban growth machine (ConWa)

Description

This project investigates the outcomes of prevailing policy ideals of social inclusion in spatial development as they face variations of increasingly financialized urban growth machines. Using urban planning studies, interpretive policy analysis and AI-driven visual methodologies in a novel way, this project focuses on recently implemented, ongoing and envisioned waterfront developments in six European cities. The waterfront (re)developments are particularly interesting contested terrains as land values are high, the conversions highly public in character, and goals and ideals of inclusion are at play. By examining these contested spaces, this project addresses the urgent question of how social inclusion is realized in Finland, the Nordic countries and Europe within the financialized urban growth machine.

Aikajakso	2024 → 2028
Tunnustuksen arvo	International