The thesis is a case study that deals with public space based on how people use them. Public spaces are an important part of our city life and everyday life. Quality public spaces and places are due to its design and use, which are the primary aspects of this study. Hässleholm has been the location for the case study inventory items. Five different methods have been the basis for the study, and through them it has been possible to study what makes a room usable and unusable and what criteria is necessary for people to want to stay in the public rooms. The study concludes with a design proposal based on the results of all methods, where one of the inventoried rooms are selected, which needed to be developed to fulfill its function. The design proposal is based on empirical data on how a room can be designed for it to be perceived as public. The design proposal is presented through plans, sections, images and illustrations. / Uppsatsen är en fallstudie som behandlar offentliga rum utifrån hur människor använder dem. Offentliga rum är en viktig del av vårt stadsliv och vår vardag. Kvalitativa offentliga rum beror på dess utformning och användning, vilka är de primära aspekterna i studien. Hässleholm har varit platsen för fallstudiens inventeringsobjekt. Fem olika metoder har varit till grund för studien, och genom dem har det kunnat studeras vad som gör ett rum användbart respektive oanvändbart samt vilka kriterier som krävs för att människor ska vilja vistas i de offentliga rummen. Studien avslutas med ett gestaltningsförslag utifrån resultatet av samtliga metoder, där ett av de inventerade rummen valts ut, vilket behövde utvecklas för att fylla sin funktion. Gestaltningsförslaget baseras på empirin om hur ett rum kan gestaltas för att det ska uppfattas som offentligt. Förslaget presenteras genom planer, sektioner, bilder och illustrationer.

The purpose of this essay is to examine how a newly built library and an old library from the sixties work out of an experience and feeling oriented view. Are the fundamental conditions of an old library compatible with the library standards of today? To be able to carry out this examination we have chosen two rather small Swedish libraries. One is the public library of Hässleholm, which opened in the year 2000, and the other is the public library of Kristianstad opened in 1965. The material used to attain the purpose of the study consists of literature studies and qualitative observations and interviews. The first main chapters of this essay are an overview of literature found on the subject. This is followed by a chapter including empirical material, were our libraries are introduced. In the discussion we reason about what we found from our literature studies and combine this with our findings from our empirical studies. Our conclusion is that both our two libraries succeed in satisfying the demands of a library today. The library in Kristianstad has, due to age and shortage of space, problems with operating the library. In Hässleholm the localities are furnished more from an ornamental than a functional point of view. This leads to a suboptimal utilization of the premises. / Uppsatsnivå: D

Uppsatsen behandlar kvinnoföreningen Husmodersföreningen i Hässleholm med omnejd fråndess att föreningen startades och tio år framöver, dvs åren 1938–1948. Husmodersföreningen iHässleholm med omnejd var verksamma fram till år 2011 då den lades ner efter 73 verksammaår. Hässleholm är en stad belägen i nordöstra Skåne. Uppsatsen studerar föreningens medlemsantal och aktiviteter, exempelvis föreläsningar,kurser och studiebesök. Föreläsningarna kunde ha fokus på bl.a. hälsorelaterade ämnen,barnuppfostran, knyppling, inredning eller vara samhällsbildande. Kurserna som erbjöds varexempelvis sykurser eller matlagningskurser av olika slag. Med de olika studiebesöken fickmedlemmarna exempelvis åka till Perstorps Ättiksfabrik eller gå på Husmodersföreningensriksmöten. Föreningen hjälpte även till i samhället genom att bidraga stöd till Norge och Finlandunder krigsåren där kvinnorna hjälpte till att sända bl.a. garn, kläder, mat och andraförnödenheter till de krigsdrabbade grannländerna.

<p>The objective of this thesis was to investigate factors that influence local government implementation. The study is a comparative case study between two local governments in Sweden; Hässleholm and Landskrona. Primarily the thesis aimed to look at the conditions faced by those implementing a new government directive aimed at supporting women who face violence, and their children who bear witness, by focusing on three key aspects for successful implementation: Implementers level of understanding, knowledge and will to implement decisions. Material in the form of documents and 14 interviews with key actors in the two authorities constitute the empirical foundation of the analysis. According to the results, are the two local governments pretty equal in achieving their projectgoal but the local government of Hässleholm had better policy-making, policy-design and policy process. This difference in outcome between the two authorities could not fully be explained by the three investigated dimensions since the difference between the two authorities were rather limited in this respect: both authorities scored quite high on implementers understanding, knowledge and will to implement decisions. This does not say that understanding, knowledge and will are not important factors, rather it shows that also other factors can affect the outcome.</p>

The objective of this thesis was to investigate factors that influence local government implementation. The study is a comparative case study between two local governments in Sweden; Hässleholm and Landskrona. Primarily the thesis aimed to look at the conditions faced by those implementing a new government directive aimed at supporting women who face violence, and their children who bear witness, by focusing on three key aspects for successful implementation: Implementers level of understanding, knowledge and will to implement decisions. Material in the form of documents and 14 interviews with key actors in the two authorities constitute the empirical foundation of the analysis. According to the results, are the two local governments pretty equal in achieving their projectgoal but the local government of Hässleholm had better policy-making, policy-design and policy process. This difference in outcome between the two authorities could not fully be explained by the three investigated dimensions since the difference between the two authorities were rather limited in this respect: both authorities scored quite high on implementers understanding, knowledge and will to implement decisions. This does not say that understanding, knowledge and will are not important factors, rather it shows that also other factors can affect the outcome.