Staden mellan visionerna och asfalten
En studie av politiska idéer och visioner om staden ur ett rumsligt perspektiv
IdealtyperStadsplaneringNyurbanismFunktionalismStockholmPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapTown and country planningStads- och glesbygdsplaneringLaw and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
Urban planning is not only a matter of architectural trends; it is first and foremost political. This thesis seeks to understand the links between political ideas and visions for the city and the physical structure of the city. The study aims to construct a model to help understand these links, a helpful tool in analysing a city, focusing on the one hand at the physical structure of what I call "The City as a Welfare Provider" and on the other hand at "The City as a Growth Engine". It also sets out to test this model in an empirical study of Stockholm and the soon-to-be built district of Norra Station in the same city.The analysis shows that Stockholm has ambitions to be a welfare provider to its citizens, but have also adopted to a discourse of interurban competition which stresses the importance for the city to enhance economical growth. What is interesting is that the physical structures promoted in the planning documents of Stockholm are nearly exclusively those associated with the model of "The City as a Growth Engine".