Med staden som förebild
reflektioner kring det stadsmässiga
This master thesis starts in a wondering about the visions and ideas we have about thecity and about the urban. In Swedish about the term stadsmässighet, which can be translatedin to city-like, urban or urbanely, something that describes or contains features ofthe city. How do we use the city as a role model? Is urbane building the same as buildinga city? Is it about architecture and aesthetics or is building urbanely the way to makepopular cities? The central aim of this essay is to study visions and reality around urbanebuilding in order to understand the concept?s meaning and how it changes. My ambitionis that the essay will function as a discussion basis for students and planners.The work starts with literature studies where theoretical definitions and concepts aboutcities and about the urbane is investigated. I have chosen to study printed literature bywell known authors, as well as diploma work and debate articles.On the basis of my theoretical studies I have identified three dimensions of building urbanely,three central directions in which urbanely building can be sought in various ways.These are structure, aesthetics and function. It is on the basis of these three perspectivesand a fourth linguistic perspective I have studied existing cases. Three case study itemshas been chosen in order to understand how the urbane visions take place in reality. Thecases represent so called urbane projects from different times, the oldest is from 1950.The projects, their plans and their visions are studied and compared. A current project,not yet implemented, is studied in a latter stage to make it possible to discuss how theconcept can change also in the future. Common for the studied cases is that they allseek to plan for a desired city life, but the ways to achieve this varies, for instance accessbalconies on the buildings or square net structures, about facade materials or aboutintegration of functions.The essay is completed with a discussion where the number of questions increases, ratherthan become fewer. I question whether there exists such a thing as urbanely buildingat all, or if it is a concept which only exists in theory. The concepts value loaded meaningis discussed as well as if we should avoid using this gathering concept.