Unmapping green space

In this article, we study the ongoing redevelopment of post-war, modernist residential area Rosengård, located in Sweden’s third biggest city Malmö. We show how a planning and design strategy for has come to focus on ‘compact city’ typology line with Malmö’s creating ‘near, dense, green mixed city’. Such compact emphasizes high density, urbanity, proximity mixed-use as key values renewal, but also threatens spaces areas designated densification. This article illustrates renewal plans generous space provision ensure dispossession residents’ rights space. Our analysis highlights planned is preceded by discursive carried out way urban represents these spaces. The Rosengård case vision imposed marginalized co-emerges new forms expert knowledge which both ‘unmaps’ existing defines them problematic requiring interventions. important, not yet sufficiently explored, right public racialized poor peripheries Northern cities already facing intense displacement pressure. argue that type only tends neglect mapping important uses space, actively produces blind spots deploying epistemology necessarily undermines should put into question default sustainability fix.