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• Unpacks power and framing of sustainability in urban logistics policy design. • Local authorities and interest organizations as key actors, not only businesses. • Power relations manifest as collaboration or contestation based on framings. • Experimental projects favor techno-rational solutions for climate neutrality. • Infrastructural lock-in with logistics as afterthought in compact city design. This article unpacks the power relations in urban logistics to understand why cities follow different policy pathways to sustainability. Drawing on the literature on power in sustainability transitions, we investigate key actors' framings of sustainability in urban logistics and assess how they leverage their positions to pursue their framing of sustainability. We utilize a mixed-method approach, with a quantitative social network analysis and semi-structured interviews, to examine urban logistics governance in three Norwegian cities – Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim. Our findings challenge the implicit understanding that private actors are the most powerful actors in urban logistics governance. Local authorities, we find, can strategically leverage their dispositional and relational power to prioritize their preferred framing of sustainability, which is based on compact and climate-neutral cities. However, they seek technical-rational interventions in collaboration with private actors, typically in the form of electrification of vehicles, while logistics remains an afterthought in general urban planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The question of the political has gained renewed relevance in recent years. New movements are challenging what has been called 'the post-political consensus' and have facilitated the repoliticisation of a wide range of social, political and cultural phenomena—both on the left and the right. One task for geographers is to understand this repoliticisation spatially. The housing sector is a prime example of how such a repoliticisation occurs. With an emerging global urban housing affordability crisis, housing is becoming an important arena for engaging in emancipatory democratic politics. In this paper, we use Oslo as a case to analyse how housing, which has long been governed through liberal consensus, is being repoliticised. We investigate Oslo's agenda of establishing a 'third housing sector' beyond the privatised model, and its role in popularising alternative models in housing. We focus on the mobilisation and rearticulation of the genealogy of failure of housing in Oslo and the alternative housing solutions brought together in the city. Discussing the emerging geographical referencescape of housing as a distinctly spatial process of politicisation we show how arguments and positions gain legitimacy by situating references to other situations and places in a multiplicity of local and foreign arenas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]