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Positive environmental and economic impact. Hammarby Sjöstad shows that an urban district can be built with a far lower environmental impact than traditional projects, as the following facts prove: • The environmental impact is 30–40% lower than for a typical district built in the 1990s.
An international role model. The water has given its name to the new city district – Hammarby Sjö – the town around the lake where planning work began back in the 1980s. It was here that a unique opportunity to expand Stockholm’s. inner city was envisaged, by converting an old industrial and harbour area into a modern city district.
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Feb 12, 2014 · Hammarby sjöstad (Hammarby Lake City) is an urban development project directly south of Stockholm’s South Island. This is no doubt the most referenced and visited spot among Scandinavian examples of implemented eco-friendly urban developments.
- Sustainable Development
- The Sustainable City
- Hammarby Sjöstad: The Sustainable Urban District
In A Blueprint for Survival (Ecologist 1972), a distinguished panel wrote that “The principal defect of the industrial way of life with its ethos of expansion is that it is not sustainable”. They meant that the foundation of survival for the human being is endangered due to the disruption of ecosystems, the growing population, and the consumption a...
In urban planning, no consensus exists wherein human settlements embody sustainability, and several sets of principles exist for sustainable cities, generally including environmental, economical, and social considerations (Basiabo 1996; Haughton and Hunter 2003; Haughton 1997). In 1990, the European Commission adopted two general approaches in cont...
By 2012, Hammarby Sjöstad will be a fully developed residential district containing approximately 11,000 apartments and accommodating 35,000 people. The urban development of Hammarby Sjöstad began in the early 1990s as the demand for housing in Stockholm rapidly increased. The area was regarded as attractive for residential purposes since it is a n...
- Sofie Pandis Iverot, Nils Brandt
- 2011
Oct 2, 2018 · Stockholm is home to one of the world's most famous eco-neighbourhoods, Hammarby Sjöstad. But does it really offer a template for green urban living that can be replicated in other fast-growing...
Jul 15, 2015 · Also the cultural diversity is low and the area is highly income-segregated. The whole sustainability concept is challenged as long as the Hammarby sjöstad waste-food cycle is not better developed in micro-regional and local scales. The Hammarby could also strengthen its social cohesion in order to develop its sustainable lifestyle habits.
ElectriCITY aims to bring Hammarby Sjöstad to the next level of sustainable development, ie Hammarby Sjöstad 2.0. We take the climate agreement in Paris, Swedens National Climate Framework and Stockholm City’s climate goals into solid local energy and environmental action.
