Neighbourhood social sustainable development and spatial scale: a qualitative case study in Sweden ...

• Main Authors: Zetterberg, Liv, Eriksson, Malin, Ravry, Cecilia, Santosa, Ailiana, Ng, Nawi
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Developmental Biology; Science Policy; Plant Biology; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22177143.v1; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Neighbourhood_social_sustainable_development_and_spatial_scale_a_qualitative_case_study_in_Sweden/22177143/1

Social sustainability has increasingly become a goal for urban policy and planning, and for local and regional developmental strategies. Neighbourhoods are a common spatial scale for studying social sustainability and there is a growing focus on social sustainability in urban neighbourhoods for both researchers and policymakers. This paper is based on a qualitative case study of a neighbourhood defined by the municipality as at-risk of negative social development in a municipality in northern Sweden. The aim is to describe the perceived threats and promoters for social sustainable development in a neighbourhood defined as at-risk, and to analyse these in relation to a perspective of spatial scale. The study is based on data from interviews with municipal representatives, local professionals and residents, representing different experiences and perspectives in the neighbourhood. Four themes illustrating threats to socially sustainable development were identified: crime, unrest and unsafety; segregation and ...