This article examines the coordinative capacity of strategic spatial planning conducted as persuasive storytelling. It suggests that spatial imaginaries and metaphors developed in storytelling gain coordinative capacity when they perform as boundary objects. Boundary objects are conceptually flexible to lend themselves to the stakeholders’ varying interpretations, and artefactually robust to provide joint targets and tools for coordinated strategic action. This is demonstrated with the example of Aalborg, Denmark, where the spatial imaginary of the ‘growth axis’ and the associated boundary object of the light rail transit/bus rapid transit spine have played important communicative and coordinative roles in the city’s spatial strategy of transitioning from an industrial city to a knowledge and culture city. The aim of the Aalborg example is to illustrate the feasibility and relevance of the theoretical approach, developed in the article, for future case research.

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战略性空间规划的“人工锚定”作为有说服力的讲故事

本文探讨了具有说服力的讲故事所进行的战略空间规划的协调能力。它表明，叙事中发展的空间虚构和隐喻在作为边界对象时具有协调能力。边界对象在概念上很灵活，可以适应利益相关者的各种不同的解释，在人为因素上也很健壮，可以为联合战略行动提供共同的目标和工具。丹麦奥尔堡的例子证明了这一点，“增长轴”的空间假想以及轻轨/公共汽车快速运输脊柱的相关边界对象在城市的空间转型策略中发挥了重要的沟通和协调作用。从工业城市到知识文化城市。