ABSTRACT
The ‘greening’ of the urban structure of Stockholm was, like most of this city’s features, characterised by the high level of municipal landholding.1 Landholding became a much more important instrument of planning than the City Planning Statute of 1907; thus the situation in Stockholm contrasts with that of London and imperial St Petersburg, but resembles more the later situation in Helsinki and, to some extent, St Petersburg/ Leningrad after the Russian Revolution. Landowning gave the city administration a strong position when it came to decisions about the design and pace of construction, particularly in the outer city. Just after the turn of the century, Stockholm started to acquire a growing number of Garden Suburbs.
