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Mareile Walter
Mareile Walter is a PhD-candidate in spatial planning at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Karlskrona.
She works on a thesis on “reading planning narratives”. The thesis develops an analytical framework to identify and interpret narratives of place identity in spatial plans. The methodological approach combines literary theory with sociological analysis and is applied to municipal documents, among them comprehensive plans, of the municipality of Karlskrona from the years 1980 – 2010. This time period covers a thorough transformation of the city’s social and economic structure. The analysis shows that the main narratives in the respective plans make use of very different literary genres, reflecting very time-specific experiences of the environment and, based on that, expectations for future development. The narratives differ also distinctively in the way they view how local development comes about, and what the role of the municipality or the citizen is.
Last modified 13 Jan 2012
