Our vision is to let The Tolerant City grow in the H+ area through a flexible and instructive planning process. The point of departure is Helsingborgs unique characteristics, the landscape, the water, history and the current well-run activities.

The inherent wishes for proximity to water, sustainability in both the social and the physical sense of the word, meeting places and diversity have been staple requirements in the preparation of this project. The structure plan is prepared with time as the fourth dimension, with the intention of examining how The Tolerant City might be able to grow, fully formed and yet constantly pointing towards its own continuation – up-dating and transforming– peaceably, but not vapidly. The structure plan has faith in a fixed link between Helsingborg and Elsinore, but does not treat this as a prerequisite.

The structure plan is a framework with exact objectives and guidelines that may be developed and gain tangible form in a number of ways. This simultaneity of firmness and flexibility is developed strategically in relation to a series of factors that collectively turn the project into a robust planning tool. A dynamic and adaptable planning process is to a large extent “sustainability”. Not only the physical organization of the area, but also its ambience it’s cultural and functional content, have been dealt with in order to create The Tolerant City. The different districts open themselves to a great variety of people and a future life as yet unknown, while they interweave with the rest of Helsingborg, psychologically as well as physically.

City squares and recreational areas facilitate the coexistence of a wide variety of people, regardless of age, ethnicity and gender, and inspire and challenge individual perspectives, lifestyles and values. Architectural diversity and exuberance fuse the smallest with the largest and create excitement and tension with regard to scale and expression.
Nothing disappears or is generated from nothing in The Tolerant City; visibility and learning create awareness of the city’s cycles and processes. The city is used and created simultaneously; it is never consumed or expended.