Haga is a city district in Gothenburg, Sweden, renowned for its picturesque wooden houses, 19th century-atmosphere and cafés. Originally a working class suburb of the city with a rather bad reputation, it was gradually transformed into a popular visiting place for tourists and Gothenburgers. [1][2] A major renovation of the area was made in the 1980s, houses were either renovated or torn down and replaced by post-modernistic replicas.
Today, Haga has a population of about 4,000 people (4,093 at 2006),[3] a much smaller population compared to 15,000 people one hundred years ago – an indication of the gentrification the district has gone through.[4]
Haga is also a parish with the same borders as the city district. It is, areawise, the smallest parish in Sweden.[4]
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- ^ statistic report for Linnéstaden, may 2007, p. 107
- ^ a b The flight magazine Inrikes, April/May 2007, p. 23