All rights reservedKarimnia, Elahe2024-11-012024-11-012016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2120Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southTo enrich the quality of urban spaces for social encounters is receiving a considerable attention in Stockholm and in most of current development processes. This paper aims to provide analysis about the provision of social qualities through macro and micro strategies in transformation of urban spaces to become meaningful places, to underline the mechanisms and structures behind the actual space. Both empirically and theoretically, the research discusses the ways public spaces are conceptualized implicitly by planning intentions, and explicitly by design of the physical environment. Through a critical but constructive perspective to the urban practice status quo in transformation process, the paper develops analytical expressions for shaping public places, their qualities and nuanced relations expected in everyday practice. To achieve this goal, this study applies Liljeholmstorget transformation project, as the representative case around densification policy in suburbs of Stockholm (1996-2009). The development strategy aimed at creating a transport hub to become more city like, means to achieve ‘diversity and shifting the industrial image’ by mixed-use blocks including: public services, residential, few offices, shopping mall, parking, and open spaces. Nominated as a best practice for “an important planning task in sustainable urban development”, the City was rewarded in 2010 for the transformation of “high quality, with integration of functions and realization of the vision for a safe, pleasant, and vibrant urban spaces”. The study examines the quality of public places, particularly manifesting the unintended patterns and ways, which different groups interact with the space and each other.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject857-858