In this thesis I explore adolescent women’s spatial appropriation in the city of Stockholm. As a group, youth are often overlooked in the planning process which is due to both a lack of knowledge about their needs and a preconceived view of teenagers as the ‘unacceptable flaneurs’ of cities. More specifically, I focus on women because they have been observed to decrease from traditional public spaces during their early adolescence. The purpose of the study is to identify barriers and facilitators to their appropriation of public space and to gain insights on their situated perspectives about what meanings they assign to places. The study is qualitative, comprising of semi-structured walk-along interviews and testing participatory methodological tools. The results offer insights into the behaviors and perceptions of adolescent women in multiple environ- ments. Shopping malls, parks, playgrounds, and friends’ rooms emerge as preferred social spaces with meanings tied to girls’ identity development. The fluidity of perceived safety, the role of familiar social groups in spatial appropriation, and the certain meanings ascribed to places highlight the complex ways in which these participants navigate, claim, shape and are being shaped by their environments.