A Healthy City for All? Social Services' Roles in Collaborative Urban Development.

Autor/inn/en	Berglund-Snodgrass, Lina; Fjellfeldt, Maria; Högström, Ebba; Markström, Urban
Titel	A Healthy City for All? Social Services' Roles in Collaborative Urban Development.
Quelle	In: Urban planning, 7 (2022) 4, S. 113-123 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2183-7635
DOI	10.17645/up.v7i4.5620
Schlagwörter	Psychische Krankheit; Psychische Störung; Gesundheit; Kollaboration; Psychische Störung; Sozialarbeiter; Stadtentwicklung; Schweden; Behinderung; Stadtentwicklung; Gesundheit; Kollaboration; Soziale Dienste; Sozialarbeiter; Behinderung; Schweden
Abstract	There is broad consensus among policymakers about the urgency of developing healthy, inclusive, and socially sustainable cities. In the Swedish context, social services are considered to have knowledge that needs to be integrated into the broader urban development processes in order to accomplish such ends. This article aims to better understand the ways in which social service officials collaborate in urban development processes for developing the social dimensions of healthy cities. We draw from neo-institutional theories, which set out actors (e.g., social service officials) as acting according to a logic of appropriateness, which means that actors do what they see as appropriate for themselves in a specific type of situation. Based on semi-structured interviews with social services officials in 10 Swedish municipalities on their experiences of collaboration in the development of housing and living environments for people with psychiatric disabilities, we identified that they act based on (a) a pragmatic rule of conduct through the role of the problem solver, (b) a bureaucratic rule of conduct through the role of the knowledge provider, and (c) activist rule of conduct through the role of the advocator. In these roles, they have little authority in the development processes, and are unable to set the agenda for the social dimensions of healthy cities but act as the moral consciousness by looking out for everyone's right to equal living conditions in urban development.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2023/1