Building Citizens’ Trust in Urban Infill: A Dynamic Approach

Urban infill is a topical issue for the growing cities in the Nordic countries. In Finland, many suitable infill sites are owned by resident-owned housing companies, and thus a successful infill process requires reconfiguration of the planning and participation practices. In this paper, we forward a dynamic approach to trust as a fruitful conceptualization of actor relationships. Building on Malcolm Tait’s typology of trust and drawing on Bourdieu’s work, we highlight the need to pay attention to the previous experiences, habitus and person’s or group’s dynamic capabilities of action for building more lasting trust in planning.