Going Out, Coming Home: A proposal applying spatial practices and social processes to support a greater sense of safety around Persborg Train Station and its surrounding neighbourhoods, Malmö
(2026) ASBM01 20261Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- Perceived safety is a fundamental condition for people’s opportunity to move through and use urban public space. This thesis investigates how urban design can support perceived safety in everyday movement through public space, focusing on the area surrounding Persborg Train Station in Malmö. The project combines literature studies, document reviews, spatial mapping, and site observations to examine how spatial, social, and perceptual conditions influence the experience of safety.
The analysis of Persborg identifies a fragmented urban environment, disconnected pedestrian and bicycle networks, limited public functions, and spatial and perceptual barriers around the station. Beyond looking at the area as a whole, several critical areas are... (More) - Perceived safety is a fundamental condition for people’s opportunity to move through and use urban public space. This thesis investigates how urban design can support perceived safety in everyday movement through public space, focusing on the area surrounding Persborg Train Station in Malmö. The project combines literature studies, document reviews, spatial mapping, and site observations to examine how spatial, social, and perceptual conditions influence the experience of safety.
The analysis of Persborg identifies a fragmented urban environment, disconnected pedestrian and bicycle networks, limited public functions, and spatial and perceptual barriers around the station. Beyond looking at the area as a whole, several critical areas are identified, including the railway tunnel and station entrances, Lönngatan, and Persborgsgatan leading to Persborgstorg.
Based on the research, the proposal develops five interdependent design principles: light, visibility, people, aesthetics, and process, and applies them through a network of connections and social nodes across the area. Rather than proposing a single fixed solution, the project explores how spatial interventions can be developed alongside local knowledge, participation, temporary actions, and longer-term transformation. The proposal therefore combines improvements to movement, visibility, lighting, crossings, and public spaces with processes that involve local actors and allow interventions to be tested and adapted over time. The thesis concludes that spatial design can support perceived safety, but should work alongside social processes and local involvement to address the complexity of how urban environments are experienced. (Less)
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- author
- Lundgren, Nike Erin Cassandra LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- ASBM01 20261
- year
- 2026
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Social sustainability, Mobility, Walkability, Urban networks, Perceived safety, Trygghet
- language
- English
- id
- 9252151
- date added to LUP
- 2026-10-02 09:29:32
- date last changed
- 2026-10-02 09:29:32
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abstract = {{Perceived safety is a fundamental condition for people’s opportunity to move through and use urban public space. This thesis investigates how urban design can support perceived safety in everyday movement through public space, focusing on the area surrounding Persborg Train Station in Malmö. The project combines literature studies, document reviews, spatial mapping, and site observations to examine how spatial, social, and perceptual conditions influence the experience of safety.
The analysis of Persborg identifies a fragmented urban environment, disconnected pedestrian and bicycle networks, limited public functions, and spatial and perceptual barriers around the station. Beyond looking at the area as a whole, several critical areas are identified, including the railway tunnel and station entrances, Lönngatan, and Persborgsgatan leading to Persborgstorg.
Based on the research, the proposal develops five interdependent design principles: light, visibility, people, aesthetics, and process, and applies them through a network of connections and social nodes across the area. Rather than proposing a single fixed solution, the project explores how spatial interventions can be developed alongside local knowledge, participation, temporary actions, and longer-term transformation. The proposal therefore combines improvements to movement, visibility, lighting, crossings, and public spaces with processes that involve local actors and allow interventions to be tested and adapted over time. The thesis concludes that spatial design can support perceived safety, but should work alongside social processes and local involvement to address the complexity of how urban environments are experienced.}},
author = {{Lundgren, Nike Erin Cassandra}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Going Out, Coming Home: A proposal applying spatial practices and social processes to support a greater sense of safety around Persborg Train Station and its surrounding neighbourhoods, Malmö}},
year = {{2026}},
}