The framing of urban values and qualities in inter-organisational settings: The case of ground floor planning in Gothenburg, Sweden

This article’s overall purpose is to contribute the recent discussion between literatures of valuation studies and urban studies. The paper aims do this by generating knowledge on framing values qualities in inter-organisational settings making up wider development projects. makes use a framework Metzger Wiberg published 2017 Urban Studies, although employing it settings, rather than intra-organisational those authors. It also adds systematic focus issues value plurality. pursues its aim interrogating case ground floor planning Gothenburg, Sweden. article demonstrates how several organisational actors with different reasons for joining scheme, repeatedly came shift practices, scales, devices valuation. One implication that study allows researcher explore plurality ways which goals evaluate alternatives keep process going. Having said this, touches upon fact value-agnostic sensibility risks neglect power asymmetries.