Medborgardialog med unga i Linköpings kommun : Metoder för att involvera unga i samhällsplaneringen

Sammanfattning: Every other youth in Sweden doesn't feel included in society. Youths don't feel represented or visible in the societal development, and urban planners find it hard to include youths in planning processes. Therefore this paper aims to explore the methods, challenges and possibilities concerning youth-inclusion in the urban planning of the swedish municipality of Linköping. The study is conducted through a thematic analysis of interviews with employees at the planning department of Linköping, as well as a content analysis of strategic documents produced by the department. The results found that the municipality uses a plethora of different methods to include youths in planning processes, but they face challenges regarding low turn-ups, communication barriers as well as trying to sustain the youth perspective in an adult-driven process. The study found that methods for involving youth have to be adapted to the target group. However, youths are often generalized into a single group targeted with the same methods, but individual differences should be accounted for. In practice, that approach is resource-intensive.