November 21, 2010

Historical Town Plans of Stockholm

Stockholm Town Plan is the result of a comprehensive process which has included programme work, consultation, and presentation to the public. Work began in the City Planning Administration as early as 1993. The City Planning Committee approved a programme for the work in February 1994. A draft proposal for a new Stockholm Town Plan was prepared in 1995 and there was broad consultation and circulation of the proposal for comment from September 1995 to March 1996. The consultations resulted in a strong, positive response to the proposal's basic idea to build Stockholm inwards, but they also gave reason for comprehensive revisions. The results of the consultations were presented to the City Planning Committee, which, in December 1996, commissioned the City Planning Administration to put a proposal for the new City Plan on display to the public in accordance with the regulations in the Planning and Building Act. The proposed Stockholm City Plan was on display to the public during September and October 1997. The result of the display was presented to the City Planning Committee in April 1998 together with alterations proposed by the City Planning Administration.
As a worthy, attractive and well functioning urban planning, Stockholm is the historic heart and center of gravity in an urban region which today has 1.76 million inhabitants. The 25 municipalities in the region are linked to each other in a network of mutual dependency with regard to the work and housing markets and recreation and transport. It is an essential precondition both for social life and for economic growth. The planning of the use of land, building development and the infrastructure has therefore a strategic role to play in the continued development of the City of Stockholm. This interplay between the different municipal authorities is an important starting point both for the City of Stockholm's comprehensive planning and for the planning which is carried out at a regional level by the state and the County Council. The changes which have taken place in Eastern Europe entail that earlier historical relationships and trade links with the Baltic countries and Russia will be re-established and can grow strong. Countries which until only a short time ago were almost wholly closed for trade and cultural exchange have now become very much a part of Sweden's immediate surroundings, and Stockholm has major possibilities to play an important role in Baltic Sea co-operation.
Stockholm City Plan's formal, main document is the plan "Land-use and building development" with descriptions. This section meets the requirements of the municipal mandatory comprehensive plan as defined in the Planning and Building Act. The formal plan is an interwoven intention as guidelines for the City's development in the future. The City is sub-divided into different categories of areas, such as the central, grid-pattern city, the densely built urban areas, the strategic development areas, nature and parks areas, special heritage areas, and a planning orientation is indicated for each category.

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