Challenges in Land Use and Transport Planning Integration in Helsinki Metropolitan Region—A Historical-Institutional Perspective

Duman, Oya; Mäntysalo, Raine; Granqvist, Kaisa; Johnson, Emily; Ronikonmäki, Niko-Matti

doi:10.3390/su14010146

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Challenges in Land Use and Transport Planning Integration in Helsinki Metropolitan Region—A Historical-Institutional Perspective

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Oya Duman

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Raine Mäntysalo

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Kaisa Granqvist

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Emily Johnson

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Niko-Matti Ronikonmäki

Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland

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Sustainability 2022, 14(1), 146; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010146

Submission received: 16 November 2021 / Revised: 17 December 2021 / Accepted: 20 December 2021 / Published: 23 December 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural, Legal and Political Dimensions of Public Norms in Sustainable Metropolitan Spaces)

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Land use and transport integration has been considered a must-have approach in achieving sustainable urban development. However, successful applications of the concept have been few, as institutional reforms to support land use and transport integration have lagged behind. Accordingly, this article argues that understanding difficulties in land use and transport integration requires an analysis of the long-term evolution of formal and informal institutional frameworks in planning practices. For this purpose, this article presents a case study of land use and transport planning in Finland’s Helsinki Metropolitan Region, which combines interview research on planners’ perceptions with a document analysis of the historical trajectories of the region’s plans, policy documents and related institutional and organizational changes. The historical-institutional approach of the article draws on discursive institutionalism as a novel analytical approach for studying how land use and transport integration is institutionally conditioned.

Keywords: discursive institutionalism; Finland; metropolitan governance; path dependency; transport system

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Duman, O.; Mäntysalo, R.; Granqvist, K.; Johnson, E.; Ronikonmäki, N.-M. Challenges in Land Use and Transport Planning Integration in Helsinki Metropolitan Region—A Historical-Institutional Perspective. Sustainability 2022, 14, 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010146

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Duman O, Mäntysalo R, Granqvist K, Johnson E, Ronikonmäki N-M. Challenges in Land Use and Transport Planning Integration in Helsinki Metropolitan Region—A Historical-Institutional Perspective. Sustainability. 2022; 14(1):146. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010146

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Duman, Oya, Raine Mäntysalo, Kaisa Granqvist, Emily Johnson, and Niko-Matti Ronikonmäki. 2022. "Challenges in Land Use and Transport Planning Integration in Helsinki Metropolitan Region—A Historical-Institutional Perspective" Sustainability 14, no. 1: 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010146

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Duman, O., Mäntysalo, R., Granqvist, K., Johnson, E., & Ronikonmäki, N.-M. (2022). Challenges in Land Use and Transport Planning Integration in Helsinki Metropolitan Region—A Historical-Institutional Perspective. Sustainability, 14(1), 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010146

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