Bilder av Bellevue - Föreställningar kring ett industriområde
ImagesCity transformationMixed functions districtCity planningSocial lifeSpatial contextSocial perspective
This bachelor essay aims to illuminate different images and ideas about Bellevue industrial area.The area is situated in a district in Gothenburg, called Gamlestaden, where Bellevue industrialarea is a former industrial area, today mostly used by minor occupations. The district is facing amajor transformation, based on a detailed master plan. One aim is to create a district with mixedfunctions; like residences, businesses, offices, services and cultural activities all together. Thisessay is based mainly from a user perspective, but it also has the perspective from the ideas andvisions by the City Planning Office.The material is mainly based on interviews with seven informants, representing different kinds ofoccupations in the area. One interview is also made with a city planner. The material is analysedon the basis of the academic Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault, who both discussed social lifein relation to a spatial context. This is useful form my essay, when it partially aims to look intodifferent ideas about the physical environment, where buildings are included, in relation to socialdimensions. My starting point in this essay, is the importance of a corner stone in city planning,which has a social perspective, a human perspective, and that the city should be a place foreveryone.How the area will develop is still not clear, what is clear though, is that the area is under bigchange. The informant?s hopes to be able to operate in the future area, fits well with the plans bythe City Planning Office, have about creating a mixed function district. So with good conditionsthe area has a good chance to develop into something that will be favourable for all partiesinvolved.