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Abstract

Denna uppsats undersoker social blandning som planeringsideal genom en fallstudie av Mariastaden i Helsingborg, med fokus pa delomradena Maria Park och Maria station. Syftet ar att undersoka hur Helsingborgs stad har formulerat ambitioner om social blandning i Mariastaden och hur dessa ambitioner har realiserats i den byggda miljon. Studien behandlar aven hur boende upplever forandringar i omradet och hur erfarenheterna kan relateras till fragor om trygghet, lokala granser samt Mariastadens framstallning i lokal media. Det empiriska materialet bestar av kommunala planeringsdokument och statistik, lokalmedialt material samt semistrukturerade intervjuer med boende och kommunala tj anstepersoner.

Resultaten v1sar att Helsingborgs stad formulerar social blandning som en ambition om en mer sammanhallen, funktionsblandad och kollektivtrafiknara stadsdel i Mariastaden. Samtidigt visar studien att ambitionen i praktiken framst omsattas genom variation i bostadsstruktur och bebyggelsetyper. Kommunens bedomningar i efterhand visar dessutom att genomforandet uppfattats som obalanserat, sarskilt genom hog tathet, manga sma lagenheter och en alltfor stark kontrast mellan den aldre och den nyare delen av stadsdelen. Boendes upplevelser av forandringen i Mariastaden ar inte entydliga. Utbyggnaden beskrivs bade som en forbattring genom okad service, battre tillganglighet och ett mer komplett vardagsutbud, och som en forlust av smaskalighet, igenkanning samt social stabilitet. Studien visar aven att Mariastaden i vardagen framtrader som en internt differentierad stadsdel, dar lokala granser inte hara gar mellan Maria Park och Maria station utan ocksa inom delomradena sjalva. Sammantaget visar denna studie att social blandning inte kan forstas enbart genom vilka bostader som byggs, utan maste analyseras i relation till hur variation organiseras, upplevs och ges mening i vardagslivet.

This thesis examines social mixing as a planning ideal through a case study of Mariastaden in Helsingborg, with a particular focus on the subareas Maria Park and Maria station. The aim is to study how the City of Helsingborg has formulated ambitions for social mixing in Mariastaden and how these ambitions have been realised in the built environment. The study also explores how residents experience changes in the area and how these experiences relate to questions of safety, local boundaries, and Mariastaden's representation in local media. The empirical material consists of municipal planning documents and statistics, local media material, and semi-structured interviews with residents and municipal officials.

The results show that the City of Helsingborg framed social mixing as an ambition to create a more cohesive, functionally mixed and public transport-oriented district in Mariastaden. At the same time, the study shows that, in practice, this ambition was mainly realised through variation in housing structure and building types. The municipality's retrospective assessments further indicate that the outcome has been perceived as unbalanced, particularly due to high density, a large number of small apartments, and an overly strong contrast between the older and newer parts of the district. Residents' experiences of the changes in Mariastaden are not unambiguous. The development is described both as an improvement, through increased services, better accessibility and a more complete everyday environment, and as a loss of small-scale character, familiarity and social stability. The study also shows that, in everyday life, Mariastaden appears as an internally differentiated district, where local boundaries exist not only between Maria Park and Maria station, but also within the subareas themselves. Overall, the thesis shows that social mixing cannot be understood solely in terms of what kinds of housing are built, but must also be analysed in relation to how variation is organised, experienced and given meaning in everyday life.