I Helsingborg pågår uppförandet av en ny stadsdel vid namn Oceanhamnen som ger plats för centralt belägna bostäder, kommersiella fastigheter och publika ytor i ett område som tidigare utgjorts av hamn- och industrimark. Studien syftar till att undersöka vilka intressen som styr den vattennära stadsutvecklingen i Oceanhamnen när det ännu inte finns några invånare i stadsdelen. Utgångspunkten för studien ligger i den sociala hållbarhetsdimensionen och hur allmänhetens behov beaktas genom intressenter och invånarinvolvering. Studien är utformad som en fallstudie där det empiriska materialet i huvudsak utgörs av flertalet semistrukturerade intervjuer. Materialet kopplas till ett teoretiskt ramverk kring uppkomsten av den rättvisa staden samt relationen mellan en nyliberal urbanisering och en kommunikativ, invånarfokuserad ansats i stadsplaneringen. Studiens slutsatser visar hur marknadens intresse styrt bostadsproduktionen i Oceanhamnen och att väldigt få insatser gjorts för att inhämta allmänhetens synpunkter kring stadsutvecklingen. Vidare har ambitionen om en socialt hållbar stadsdel varit svår att leva upp till, dels utifrån fysiska barriärer som försvårar stadsdels integrering med staden dels genom bostadsbestånd som primärt riktar sig till en välbemedlad målgrupp. / In the city of Helsingborg, a new district called Oceanhamnen is under construction in a former port and industrial area, making room for centrally located housing, commercial properties and public spaces. This master thesis aims to investigate the interests influencing the urban waterfront redevelopment in Oceanhamnen under the condition that there are no residents in the district yet. The study is focusing on social sustainability and how the voices of the public are taken care of through stakeholders and citizen participation. This master thesis is designed as a case study with material mainly consisting of semi-structured interviews. The material is set in a theoretical framework concerning the just city and the relation between a neoliberal urbanism and the communicative turn in urban planning. The conclusions show how commercial interest has dominated housing construction in Oceanhamnen and that very few efforts have been made to obtain the public's views on the urban redevelopment. Furthermore, the city’s ambition for a socially sustainable district has been difficult to meet up to, partly based on physical barriers that make it harder for the area to integrate with the rest of the city and partly through housing that is primarily address a affluent target group.

The aim of this paper is to explore contemporary trends in the field of urban planning in Stockholm, Sweden, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is furthermore to, from an urban justice perspective, investigate the potential application of the “15-minute city” in Stockholm, a planning model with the central premise of residents having no longer than 15 minutes to basic services and functions by foot or bicycle. A variation of the concept is the “one-minute city”, used to describe the street transformation projects Framtidsgatan and Street Moves. The findings suggest that the pandemic has more or less confirmed the strategic direction of the city, rather than changing it. The 15-minute city model is not explicitly mentioned in any strategies or planning documents, but the city’s planning seems to be guided by principles in line with those of the model, for instance in the centering of components such as proximity, density and (physical) diversity. The 15-minute city model and relevant street transformation projects further primarily seem to address justice issues through spatial redistribution. On the street level, this entails transforming space intended for cars into recreational space, to the benefit of pedestrians and cyclists. On the regional level, it entails a restructuring of the built form in compliance with components such as proximity, density and diversity, in order to bridge the gap in accessibility to basic services and functions between different social groups. The analysis suggests that spatial changes in accordance with the 15-minute city model can have some positive effects in furtherance of justice but that this is highly dependent on these measures being implemented in socio-economically vulnerable areas as well as there being measures in place to assure that local residents are not displaced through gentrification, among other things.