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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
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•
•
•
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•
•
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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
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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
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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•
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•
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•
•
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?