Hållbarhet i urbaniseringens tid : En jämförelse av Nackas och Huddinges stadsplanering

Sammanfattning: Urbanization is a global trend that is constantly increasing. In Sweden, there are similar patterns where both population and urbanization are expected to increase significantly in the future, wherein cities contribute to several environmental problems, but can also account for many of the solutions. Increasing globalization makes sustainable urban development an important and urgent issue, which Sweden emphasizes the importance of through the national environmental goal "A Good Built Environment". In the mission to create a sustainable urban environment, the local level and thus the municipalities constitute an important part. To study and compare how Nacka and Huddinge municipalities plan for and prioritize sustainable urban development in their comprehensive plans, a qualitative content analysis has been performed. The results of the content analysis have been analyzed through the framework “Sustainable urban planning development framework'' developed by AlQahtany et al. (2013), where this essay has used the framework's four dimensions (environment, social, economy, planning) to answer the problem statements. The results show that the two researched municipalities have an integrated environmental work where all dimensions of the framework are represented in both municipalities’ comprehensive plans, and almost all categories although the distribution of them was usually uneven. The planning dimension was most commonly represented, followed by the social dimension, the environmental dimension and the economic dimension in both municipalities. The main differences between the municipalities' planning were that Nacka municipality had a greater focus on the social dimension compared to Huddinge municipality which had a greater focus on all the other dimensions.