Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden

The quest for sustainable urban development requires innovative planning approaches more apt to cater transformative action. Based on a case study approach, this aims explore the potential local develop practical able accelerate transition towards development. To guide spatial sustainability, analysis of results shows that planners need envision process design as advance understanding how site or area can be developed. act involves pending between processes contextualization (i.e. exploring five distinguishable domains inquiry) and concretization deciding upon course action by executing activities form trajectory). Regarding approaches, it is concluded that: (i) possess capabilities allow them probe future places produce insights about prospective change, (ii) capacity practices bound identified inquiry (iii) forthcoming evaluations organized around reveal regarding possibilities put notion sustainability into practice at level.