Soft Spaces as a Traveling Planning Idea: Uncovering the Origin and Development of an Academic Concept on the Rise

This article analyses the academic concept of “soft spaces” from the perspective of traveling planning ideas. The concept has its origin in the United Kingdom but has also been used in other contexts. Within European Union policy-making, the term soft planning has emerged to describe the processes of cooperation and learning with an unclear...

Ethnicity, neighbourhood and social relations in the Nordic Countries (draft version)

The ethnic composition of a neighbourhood is an important factor determining the possibilities for inter-ethnic relations between citizens as well as attitudes to different ethnic groups. There has been, especially in recent years, lots of research concerning the intertwined relations of ethnicity, residentiality and attitudes towards people of...