The city that the metro system built: Urban transformations and modalities of integrated planning in Stockholm

Alexander Paulsson

Urban Studies, 2020, vol. 57, issue 14, 2936-2955

Abstract: This paper investigates how housing and public transport planning in Stockholm has been integrated during the past 20 years through multi-level collaboration. Drawing upon how Stockholm has been portrayed in the literature on transit-oriented development (TOD), that is, as a successful case of integrated land use, housing and public transport planning, this paper suggests that multi-level collaboration in Stockholm’s urban transformations has had its own challenges related to de-integration and reintegration. By including an exploration of the development of the metro system since the 1960s and onwards, the more recent processes of de-integration and reintegration emerge as endemic but often marginalised aspects of achieving TOD-like urban development. The paper contributes to previous studies by proposing three modalities of integration: (1) de-integration by agreement, (2) integration by collaboration, and (3) reintegration by intervention. These modes are not evaluative but should rather be used as a point of departure for future studies empirically investigating how integrated planning is achieved in contexts where transit-oriented development is contingent on multi-level collaboration.

Keywords: integrated planning; multi-level collaboration; public transport; Stockholm; transit-oriented development; ç»¼å ˆè§„åˆ’; 多层次å 作; 公交; 斯德哥尔摩; å…¬äº¤å¯¼å ‘åž‹å¼€å ‘ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098019895231

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