Nationalstadsparken

Sweden is often associated to a country in advance for environmental issues. Stockholm is a green town. It is true and Nationalstadsparken is responsible to a great part by it size. Nationalstadsparken is composed by Ulriksdal, Haga, Brunnsviken, Frescati, Djugarden and is owned by the municipality of Stockholm or town from periphery like Solna. Preservation of this area without buildings, roads had been possible by possession of Crown....

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Kista

Kista is located in the North of Stockholm. Kista is called by Swedish people and others “The Silicon Valley of Sweden” but I am not sure that it is the better qualification of this district. Kista is a district recently inaugurated. Information technology and communication (ITC) are concentred here. Just in the Kista Science Building we find 200,000 employees who work in this sector of activity. So offices composed this district. Multinational...

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Vällingby

Vällingby is located in western part of Stockholm few subway’s stations after our latest excursion in the same line. The project was started in 1951. This is entirely a new town and for this reason was admired by French geographers as you can see in different Géographie Universelle. Famous architects participated at this planning project. Vällingby follows the ABC-city model which mains Arbete (work) Böstäder (dwelling) and Centrum (commercial...

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Norra Ängby

Welcome in the most expensive suburb of Stockholm! You have got the main idea! We are in the west of Stockholm. New age? Yes, the suburb was built in the 1930s – 1940s during a program called “own-house-movement”. It was a movement of working class people to access at an own house. Streets follow a draughtboard’s plan. The city was encircled by a green space and also a lake. This countryside has been preserved by the years. Houses have uniform...

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Globen

New place, other age for this famous Swedish building… We are in the South of Stockholm and not in the municipality of Stockholm. Stockholm Globe City is composed by the Globen Arena for the most well-known but also by the Globen Shopping Centre. Of course centre of gravity is the Globen Arena; this building is a globe of 110 metres of diameter with a height of 85 metres (perhaps the largest hemispherical building in the world but I am not sure)....

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Tensta

Tensta is a district where 17,083 inhabitants live located in the northwest of Stockholm municipality. This district was built in 1965 like a part of Million Home Program. The Million Home Program is an initiative of Social Democrats in order to erase the shortage of dwellings once and for all in Sweden. It consisted in the building of one million dwellings in ten years. Nowadays, these buildings represent one of for housings in Sweden. For...

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