Stockholm City Plan

The Green Map Objectives

Using the Green Map

Ecological Qualities

Social and Cultural Qualities

Developing Stockholm As A Sustainable Compact City In A Network Region

A planned city Strategy for the 21st century: Build the City inwards

Urban development areas on the edge of the inner city Developing Kista Science City

Stockholm as a part of a multi-core structure Preserving and developing the green structure

Participation in enhancing suburban areas

 Stockholm has retained a great deal of its natural
and cultural landscape,
 The open land areas in and around Stockholm
form the green structure,
 Stockholm City must take place as far as possible
on previously developed land (brownfield sites).
• StocKholm city plan on 4 October 1999 is the
comprehensive plan for land and water uses and
development.
• The main strategy is to achieve sustainable
development by “building the city inwards”.
• An overall green structure is defined in the plan
along with guidelines for green qualities.
• Stockholm City Plan 1999 and the Green Map have
been parallel projects.
 To create a green structure that serves all its
purposes, i.e. social, cultural, ecological and
technical functions that work well as a whole.
 To give the green structure the same standing as
the building and traffic structures, together they
form a good urban environment.
 To give an overall and simple picture of where
there are ecological, cultural and social qualities
in the city and where these qualities are lacking.
 Itis also to be used as a basis during the city’s
transition towards long-term sustainability.
 The Green Map clearly illustrates each area's
qualities and their connection.
 The Green Map implements the guiding principles of
the Stockholm City Plan.
 Department of Physical Geography at Stockholm
University, in cooperation with the City of
Stockholm has devolaped the ecological valuation
of the land.
 The Biotope Map is an interpretation of infrared
aerial photographs in which 78 different biotopes.
 Especially valuable biotopes (green) are habitat for
a large number of different species and have the
highest natural values.
 Dispersion areas and buffer zones (yellow) The
value of these biotopes depends to a great extent
on where they are situated.
 areas of low biological value (grey) with little or no
vegetation usually have very few natural qualities
and function.
Survey of Valuable

Carried out by >> means of field studies >> interpreting aerial photographs
Open Space

Shows parks and natural areas, other public land, housing areas, other land
reserved for building and unplanned land.

Classification based on --> experiences --> inquiries

Valuation and classification of open spaces

Green Grid  Open areas with major social and cultural qualities

Yellow Grid  Areas with good access to valuable open spaces

Grey Grid  Areas with limited access to valuable open spaces

 Valuation and classification of open spaces
Open areas with Areas with good Areas with limited
major social and access to valuable access to valuable
cultural qualities open spaces open spaces

Half of the built-up Only 1/4 or less of

Remain undeveloped the area is classified
area is valuable
open space as valuable open
Exceptional cases space
When other Preserved, protected
Area improved for
important interests and developed on a
recreation when
are at stake and no scale both
planning, to create a
alternative location reasonable and
multi-functional
is available characteristic for
structure of green
that particular city
Preserved & areas and open
district
improved for spaces that is well
recreation suited to its purpose
Qualities must be
Protected under the protected by
Environmental Code applying the
and the Planning provisions under the
and Building Act Planning and
Building Act
 A Plan City

STOCKHOLM – THE UNIQUE CITY

Strategy: buy land Designed as a
>> Stockholm is a developing capital for development and neighbour-hood unit
city to preserve areas for >>social and
recreation purposes commercial core
>> Stockholm’s position as a node in >>high density
the Baltic region Following the housing close to the
>>The developing policies aim of principles of zoning station
making building housing and
workplaces without violating the
attractiveness and unique Establishing large- Establishing an
characteristics of the city. scale systems for efficient public
>> Stockholm has a unique character >> heating transport system,
as a city of green and blue – large >> sewage based on a network
preserved green areas and blue >> waste treatment of metro lines and
waters around the islands the city was commuting trains
built on.
Strategy for the 21st century: Build the City inwards

Increasing car
traffic

Growing Developing
awareness of economy –
environmental growing IT and
issues media industry

Issue
Increasing
ethnic and No unused land
social left to develop
segregation

Strong demand
for new
housing
 Strategy for the 21st century: Build the City inwards
SOLUTION
Stockholm City Plan 99 - adopted by the City Council in October
1999

A broad discussion among citizens, organisations, local

authorities, companies, governmental authorities was part of the
process in making the plan

At public meetings and exhibitions all around the city citizens

gave their opinion about the plan

The aim of the City Plan 99 is to “build the city inwards”

- Reuse already developed land
- Respect and enhance the character of the City
- Redevelop semi-central area  transform older industrial
areas into new urban areas of mixed uses and variation
- Concentrate new development to areas with good access to
public transport
Strategy for the 21st century: Build the City inwards
 Increasing car traffic

The congestion tax is Public Transport

charged for certain vehicles driven
in to, and out of the inner city
of Stockholm, between 6:30 am
and 6:30 pm Monday to Friday Transportation system more Cycling
environmentally friendly, and to
increase the proportion of
Intended to :
pedestrians, cyclists and users
>> improve traffic flow of public transport
>> contribute to improvements in the
urban environment
>> raise money for investment in the Facilities
transport network
Smart Card

Park & Ride Better parking facilities

Music Bands

Interconnection from cars and bicycles to taxis and regional trains Increase security
 Growing awareness of environmental issues

Biogas
Biodiesel - produced naturally when organic
- renewable fuel for diesel waste ferments
engines -no health hazardous emissions Ethanol
- derived from different - very little greenhouse gas
vegetable oils emissions
– less noisy

Electric Car
 Social and Cultural Qualities

Urban development areas on the edge of the inner city

Developing Kista Science City

Stockholm as a part of a multi-core structure

Preserving and developing the green structure

Participation in enhancing suburban areas

The city Plans to develop mixed use areas with attaractive
housing, bussiness facilities
development area
The idea of urban

reuse and redevelop old partly abandones industrial and harbour

Take advantage of already existing investment in infrastructure

 Tvabanan

>> connection between the

redial metro lines going from the
suburbs to the inner city.
>> the first effort in stockhlom
to establish a peripheral heavy
public communication link
>> Open new possibilities to
develop urban nuclei in the
nodes where the tram connects
to the metro lines
 Hammarby Sjostad

largest on-going new part of inner

urban development Stockholm where the
project focus is on the water

An old dockland and

industrial areas
Run-down port and being transform into
industrial district modern city area
being transformed that will form a
into logical extension of
modern, ecologically Sodermalm, with
sustainable part of a 8,000 apartment
city housing population
of 20,000
After completion of all
parts of the project in
2010 there will be
30,000 people living and
working in the area.
Hammarby Sjostad
(cont.)
 North West
Kungsholmen

Some of the most

advanced companies Less space is needed
within Telecom and for warehouse and
Internet business goods on the quays and
sphere are establishing greet parts of harbour
their head offices for area will possible to
the european and develop for housing and
nordic market the offices

This area will be

completed with new Lindhagen street now
housing in an designed as a road for
excellent position close heavy commercial
to public transport and traffic, will be
to water in the north developed as
western part. boulevard
 Vartan-Frihamnen
harbour

Within area also one of

More based on roll on/ the largest firms in
roll off handling Biotechnology, Pharmac
ia – has a research
facilities

The development have

already started
The new housing and spontaneously as many
offices will co-exist firms mainly in
with expanding ferry information technology
and ro/ro traffic. and media business
have moved into the
old warehouses
 .

Is one of the worlds most

important IT-Clusters

Firms ( Ericson, Nokia, Intel, Microsoft,

Motorola etc) have chosen to locate their
development in wireless telecom and
wireless internet to this area.
The city is now working with a
project to transform these areas to
an attractive place for work and
life.
Using Tvarbanan as public transport in an
effort to over-bridge cultureal and ethnic
barriers existing in the areas.

Providing jobs to unemployed people

through a co-operatively program with
job matching between the growing
advanced IT-industry in Kista and the
housing areas south.
The ideas of landscape park is planned to
promote social connection between
northwestern parts and poorer suburban
area south of Stockholm. The design to be
an ecological and cultural park with
meeting places.
 Kista Science City Area of Development in Kista Science City

With surrounding districts and

Kista Science Tower Kista Science Tower
municipalities plans and idea
 Stockholm as a part of a
. multi-core structure

1- Investment in Public Transport and subsidy to

keep down fares.
e.g.: i) 70% people travel from house to workplace using
public transport.
ii) develop strategic area in prevent user to use its
own car

2- Use train for far distance

e.g.: i) Malar Valley consist ¾ countries, big town and cities
ii) To avoid further development of edge cities served by
car
iii) car traffic is decreasing.
 .

Stockholm city and the Green Map have been parallel project which
the Green Map goes further and defines the green qualities.

Stockholm city and

the Green Map have
been parallel project The Green Map
which the Green Map defines the values of
goes further and parks and green
defines the green areas.
qualities.

It is devide into an ecological part,

based on the biotop mapping showing
bio-diversity, and a socio-cultural part
based on a “ sociotop map” (a places
for human activities and experiences)
which is the result of a communicative
process involving citizens..
 Participation in enhancing suburban areas

Late 60’s, early 70’s – built million suburbs along metrolines in

order to get rid of heavy housing
shortage

70’s – Suburbs move to own house, so flat become empty

90’s – Increasing social problems in Million programme areas.

Planning issue needs to manage in order to continuing development

to enhance democracy and citizen enggagement

Come out with Outer City program where built environment and
design standard of building improved following in the innitiative from
tenants
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