ABSTRACT

Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm’s environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind Stockholm’s unique position, and importantly the question of how well Stockholm’s practices can be exported and transposed to other places and contexts.

By using the case of Stockholm as the pivot of discussions, Sustainable Stockholm investigates the core issues of sustainable urban environmental development and planning, in all their entanglements. The book shows how intersecting fields such as urban planning and architecture, traffic planning, land-use regulation, building, waste management, regional development, water management, infrastructure engineering—together and in combination—have contributed to making Stockholm Europe’s "greenest" city.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

The Greenest City?

chapter |41 pages

From Ugly Duckling to Europe's First Green Capital

A Historical Perspective on the Development of Stockholm's Urban Environment

chapter |20 pages

Using the Concept of Sustainability

Interpretations in Academia, Policy, and Planning

chapter |31 pages

A Sustainable Urban Fabric

The Development and Application of Analytical Urban Design Theory

chapter |27 pages

Sustainable Urban Flows and NetWorks

Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Infrastructure Development and Planning

chapter |21 pages

Performing Sustainability

Institutions, Inertia, and the Practices of Everyday Life

chapter |27 pages

From Ecomodernizing to Political Ecologizing

Future Challenges for the Green Capital