G5 Doctoral dissertation (article)
Tarkoitus pyhittää keinot : kiinteistökehittämisen ja kulttuuriympäristön suojelun diskurssit 2010-luvun suomalaisessa kaupunkisuunnittelussa, esimerkkinä Tikkurilan kirkon kortteli (2025)
The end Justifies the means : discourses of real estate development and heritage conservation in Finnish urban planning in the 2010s
Julin, P. (2025). Tarkoitus pyhittää keinot : kiinteistökehittämisen ja kulttuuriympäristön suojelun diskurssit 2010-luvun suomalaisessa kaupunkisuunnittelussa, esimerkkinä Tikkurilan kirkon kortteli [Doctoral dissertation]. Jyväskylän yliopisto. JYU Dissertations, 878. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-86-0487-7
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All authors or editors: Julin, Paula
eISBN: 978-952-86-0487-7
Journal or series: JYU Dissertations
eISSN: 2489-9003
Publication year: 2025
Number in series: 878
Number of pages in the book: 1 verkkoaineisto (297 sivua)
Publisher: Jyväskylän yliopisto
Place of Publication: Jyväskylä
Publication country: Finland
Publication language: Finnish
Persistent website address: https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-86-0487-7
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Abstract
This case study applies critical discourse analysis and argumentation analysis. The data consists of minutes of decisions made, planning documents, opinions and media texts concerning Tikkurila Church Quarter and observations made in the urban environment. The study combines many theoretical standpoints and concepts related to urban planning, real estate economy and heritage conservation and connects theories of discourse analysis and communicative planning to concepts of neoliberalism and authorized heritage discourse, including their critics.
In addition to the complicated planning process, the case analysis highlights discourses and affective rhetoric that justify demolition, the difficulty the authorities had in presenting their conflicting arguments for and against the plans, and institutional structures that can be shaped to ensure interests. The most powerful of the identified discourses adapted to the assumptions of neoliberalism. These discourses advance a pro-demolition building culture and overemphasize the benefits of new construction. In the light of this case, communicative planning theory creates unrealistic expectations that public discourse will be rational and that communicative processes will make an impact. It may also mislead urban studies researchers to focus excessively on official planning processes instead of the surrounding jungle of practices and the wider discursive world.
Keywords: real estate economics; urban design; town planning; cultural environment; argumentation theory; neoliberalism; discourse; discourse analysis; doctoral dissertations
Free keywords: communicative planning theory
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Related projects
- Heritage Conservation and Real Estate Development: Expert Collaboration in Urban Planning
- Julin, Paula
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
- Heritage Conservation and Real Estate Development: Expert Collaboration in Urban Planning
- Julin, Paula
- Greta ja William Lehtisen Säätiö sr
- Real Estate Development and Heritage Conservation: Expert Collaboration in Urban Planning
- Julin, Paula
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
Ministry reporting: Yes
VIRTA submission year: 2025