<p>The aim of this study has been to make clear the conception of “The Garden City”, and also to investigate why and how the garden city has come to be a more frequent and attractive form of settlement in our Swedish community. The essay is supported by a literature study about the garden city from its beginning (1890’s) to present time. To make a distinct explanation of the garden cities progress over time, I have studied the idea behind two garden cities of today, Tullinge and Vistabergs garden city. Architects and commissioners of building projects, working with those two examples of garden cities, has been interviewed in purpose to catch a glimpse of the 21th centuries designing and planning of garden cities and society.</p><p>Ebenezer Howard’s idea of the garden city was to create a public reform, witch aimed to create a better life for lower classes in society. The reform concerned to redistribute the population, from the crowded cities to the garden cities verdure and pleasant low-rise buildings. Howard’s thoughts and ideas were too diagrammatic and theoretical to become real. His ideas has passed on and has progressed through time to suit the prevailing time and space. In the 1990’s the garden cities got a Renaissance on the Swedish market. It was a necessary contrast to the criticized high-rise areas designed during the era of the million program (miljonprogrammet) of the 1960s. At the same time as the awareness of the environments and natures necessity rose, the garden city became more popular because of it natural soundness. The garden cities little picturesque settlement and structure appeal to the Swedish culture and the human sense. This kind of settlement is a functional complement to the stressful society of today. In the settlement of the garden city the inhabitants can rest, breath out and get away from the stressful city. Its access to verdure oases and private cultivable land attract a lot of people. The peaceful work in the garden is ranked high in the Swedish society. However, all the garden cities that are planned and exist today can’t fulfil the origin demands, often because of defect cooperation between the actors within the fields of planning and constructing. The garden city seems in many ways to be a suitable settlement also for the age that we live in. Its actual popularity seems to remain and because of that it will make a definite impact on the spatial development and suburban life in Sweden.</p>

The aim of this study has been to make clear the conception of “The Garden City”, and also to investigate why and how the garden city has come to be a more frequent and attractive form of settlement in our Swedish community. The essay is supported by a literature study about the garden city from its beginning (1890’s) to present time. To make a distinct explanation of the garden cities progress over time, I have studied the idea behind two garden cities of today, Tullinge and Vistabergs garden city. Architects and commissioners of building projects, working with those two examples of garden cities, has been interviewed in purpose to catch a glimpse of the 21th centuries designing and planning of garden cities and society. Ebenezer Howard’s idea of the garden city was to create a public reform, witch aimed to create a better life for lower classes in society. The reform concerned to redistribute the population, from the crowded cities to the garden cities verdure and pleasant low-rise buildings. Howard’s thoughts and ideas were too diagrammatic and theoretical to become real. His ideas has passed on and has progressed through time to suit the prevailing time and space. In the 1990’s the garden cities got a Renaissance on the Swedish market. It was a necessary contrast to the criticized high-rise areas designed during the era of the million program (miljonprogrammet) of the 1960s. At the same time as the awareness of the environments and natures necessity rose, the garden city became more popular because of it natural soundness. The garden cities little picturesque settlement and structure appeal to the Swedish culture and the human sense. This kind of settlement is a functional complement to the stressful society of today. In the settlement of the garden city the inhabitants can rest, breath out and get away from the stressful city. Its access to verdure oases and private cultivable land attract a lot of people. The peaceful work in the garden is ranked high in the Swedish society. However, all the garden cities that are planned and exist today can’t fulfil the origin demands, often because of defect cooperation between the actors within the fields of planning and constructing. The garden city seems in many ways to be a suitable settlement also for the age that we live in. Its actual popularity seems to remain and because of that it will make a definite impact on the spatial development and suburban life in Sweden.

The extent of residential segregation in vulnerable areas has negative consequences and is a challenge for urban planning today. Transformations in these areas often involve new construction with the hope of improving quality of life and reducing social and socio-economic segregation. At the same time, new construction can lead to challenges such as gentrification and rising rents. One current area for change is Biskopsgården in Gothenburg, whose development is based on the garden city as a planning principle. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the garden city will have the desired effect on Biskopsgården and what consequences the project may have for the area. The paper focuses on how the City of Gothenburg is planning a major change in one of Sweden's particularly vulnerable areas, Biskopsgården in western Gothenburg. Planning programs are analyzed with the help of interviews and field analysis to understand the changes that will take place. Gothenburg's planned changes are based on small-scale urban development according to the principles of the garden city, which Gothenburg believes can strengthen social sustainability. Today's Biskopsgården has similar influences on the principles of the garden city with a certain amount of mixed small-scale development, neighborhood units and where greenery is evident. However, what is often referred to as the positive aspect of the garden city, a socially cohesive and dense development, is further away from today's Biskopsgården. The question is then whether an ideal such as the garden city and the influences of attractive areas are something that can be achieved in the work on a socially sustainable Biskopsgården. The conclusion of the study does not provide an unequivocal answer as to what change in the suburbs will look like in the future. Instead, the paper focuses on how to work towards vulnerable areas and how the change work may affect Biskopsgården.  The Garden City can add certain positive characteristics, but it is possible that it may also have limitations in solving certain problematic aspects. Perhaps, however, the City of Gothenburg's project in Biskopsgården with the garden city as a planning principle can serve as an influence for other municipalities in development work with vulnerable and particularly vulnerable areas.