This bachelor´s thesis is concearned with explaining and analysing how the concept of förtätning is represented in Swedish municipal documentation. The use of the concept has been explained as complex and varied, and as such, it is of great use to explain how municipal documentation uses the concept in their strategies for land and water use in comparison to each other as well as comparing the result to Boverket and other related research. This by retrieving information through qualitative conventional content analysis from comprehensive planning and other municipal documents. Found in this study is that the concept at face value is found to have little meaning beyond what is initially apparent but is heavily tied to the strategies and desired qualities that the new, and complementary construction, should provide, and promote according to principles related to wellbeing, sustainability, and equality. Critique towards the concept is very lightly touched upon due to the type of documentation that was the basis for this study.