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Inventing a University City: Planning and Politics in Umeå, 1950-2000 Rolf Hugoson and Fredrik Palm, Sweden Research consists of archive studies and interviews with the municipal leadership (What did they learn?) Presentation of final results will be made in the database ”Umeå Outlook Tower” – 50 animated project stories, housed on five floors Presentation at Geoviz 2009 focus on how we can visualize methods connecting results to research. Key words are governance and policy networks: ”who governs?” Inventing a University City: Planning and Politics in Umeå, 1950-2000 Rolf Hugoson and Fredrik Palm, Sweden Research consists of archive studies and interviews with the municipal leadership (What did they learn?) Presentation of final results will be made in the database ”Umeå Outlook Tower” – 50 animated project stories, housed on five floors Presentation at Geoviz 2009 focus on how we can visualize methods connecting results to research. Key words are governance and policy networks: ”who governs?” Inventing a University City: Planning and Politics in Umeå, 1950-2000 Rolf Hugoson and Fredrik Palm, Umeå University, Sweden Research consists of archive studies and interviews with the municipal leadership (What did they learn?) Presentation of final results will be made in the database ”Umeå Outlook Tower” – 50 animated project stories, housed on five floors Presentation at Geoviz 2009 focus on how we can visualize methods connecting results to research. Key words are governance and policy networks: ”who governs?” Multidimensional exploration Inventing a university city An aspect of a more general ”History of the city of Umeå,1950-2000” (a project coordinated by Rolf Hugoson at the Centre for Regional Science (CERUM) at Umeå University) Building a database • To store historical and topographical data • To make the history of Umeå accesible to a wide audience • To allow for research on different kinds of projects Building a database • To store historical and topographical data • To make the history of Umeå accesible to a wide audience • To allow for research on different kinds of projects The Umeå Outlook Tower: select floor=decade The Umeå Outlook Tower: each floor opens to 10 projects Building a database • To store historical and topographical data • To make the history of Umeå accesible to a wide audience • To allow for research on different kinds of projects • -- e.g. ”Inventing a university city” Method • Purposes – To make room for the study of a variety of hypotheses – To support but not to replace other methods used in e.g. policy analysis, organization theory, regional science and in historical studies Theory Who is Planning the City? The politicians Politicians Bureaucrats Citizens Assembly Council Streets Health Social care Water Sewage School Citizens ? ? Assembly Engaged citizens State authorities ? Council Streets Health Social care Water Sewage School ? Consultants conservative Citizens Social democrats Agrarian liberals Landowners Assembly Engaged citizens Press Roads Cou State authorities Students Council Streets Health Social care Employment Architects Consultants Water Sewage School Engineers Enviro conservative petitions Citizens Social democrats Agrarian liberals Manifestations in the streets laws Landowners Assembly Roads Engaged citizens Press State authorities Students Council Employment expert opinions arguments Cou Architects Streets Health Social care Consultants Water Sewage School Engineers money Enviro Umeå Municipal Assembly 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1965 1966 1970 1973 1976 1979 1982 1985 1988 1991 1994 1998 Högern 8 6 6 9 6 8 8 5 6 6 8 10 9 7 9 8 10 Lib/Fp 9 10 10 9 10 13 13 11 8 8 8 5 10 9 7 5 4 SAP 13 14 14 16 17 21 19 22 29 28 28 30 28 30 27 31 23 Center n 1 2 8 10 12 17 18 13 12 8 8 10 8 5 Vpk Offensi v/R Mp 3 3 6 5 5 4 4 5 10 1 3 5 4 6 5 2 Totalt 30 30 30 35 35 50 50 51 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 Högern Lib/Fp 1950 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ester Andersson Ingrid Brynolf Bernhard Bäckman Helmer Carlsson Hilding Carlsson Viktor Carlsson Erik Dahlgren Elon Dufvenberg Erik Ekman Henry Forsberg Klas Johansson Stig Johansson Paul Jonsson Johan Karlsson Thyra Kvarnbrink 6 10 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • SAP Total 14 30 Ruth Levander Ernst Lindberg P G Lundberg Frans Lundmark Gustaf Malmfors Thure Melander Oscar A Nilsson Joel Nordin Sven Rydfjäll John Sandström J A Sollander Wilhelm Strömqvist Johan Wandén Märta Wigren Axel Wåhlin Waldemar Åström conservative petitions Citizens Social democrats Agrarian liberals Manifestations in the streets laws Landowners Assembly Roads Engaged citizens Press State authorities Students Council Employment expert opinions arguments Cou Architects Streets Health Social care Consultants Water Sewage School Engineers money Enviro Method • Purposes – To make room for the study of a variety of hypotheses – To support but not to replace other methods used in e.g. policy analysis, organization theory, regional science and in historical studies conservative petitions Citizens Social democrats Agrarian liberals Manifestations in the streets laws Landowners Assembly Roads Engaged citizens Press State authorities Students Council Employment expert opinions arguments Cou Architects Streets Health Social care Consultants Water Sewage School Engineers money Enviro petitions Manifestations in the streets laws expert opinions arguments money petitions manifestations laws plan debate plan decision expert opinions arguments money = PROJECT A series of documents: Activities plan debate plan decision A series of documents: Activities… …made at a specific time and place… plan debate plan decision …authored by persons… …who belongs to organizations Högern Lib/Fp 1950 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ester Andersson Ingrid Brynolf Bernhard Bäckman Helmer Carlsson Hilding Carlsson Viktor Carlsson Erik Dahlgren Elon Dufvenberg Erik Ekman Henry Forsberg Klas Johansson Stig Johansson Paul Jonsson Johan Karlsson Thyra Kvarnbrink 6 10 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • SAP Total 14 30 Ruth Levander Ernst Lindberg P G Lundberg Frans Lundmark Gustaf Malmfors Thure Melander Oscar A Nilsson Joel Nordin Sven Rydfjäll John Sandström J A Sollander Wilhelm Strömqvist Johan Wandén Märta Wigren Axel Wåhlin Waldemar Åström Activities can be grouped into many projects plan debate plan plan plan debate plan plan debate debate decision debate Project A plan decision Project B decision decision Project C Project D Project E debate plan debate plan plan plan Information structure Multidimensional exploration Arranging facets to explore Search hierarchy: Actors to projects In which projects and activities did the state participate? Which organisations worked for the state? Search hierarchy: Project to actors What activities generated the university project? Who participated in these activities? (organisations and persons) How did a certain person influence projects?