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

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.

Longitudinal macro-analysis of car-use changes resulting from a TOD-type project: The case of Metro do Porto (Portugal)

“…The first involves the application of the same methodological approach (difference-in-differences) to similar projects in other European countries to understand whether the results we have obtained are also observed in other geographical contextsparticularly in France, Italy, and Spain, where numerous light-rail and fast-tram TOD-type projects were put in place in the last 25 years. Indeed, despite the growing interest that TOD is attracting in European countries, up to now the research efforts regarding its impacts on travel behavior are descriptive in nature (see, e. g., Bertolini et al, 2012;Knowles, 2012;Pojani and Stead, 2018;and Paulsson, 2020). Another enticing research direction to pursue is the development of a micro-analysis of the impact of Metro do Porto, conducted at the census tract level ("secção estatística") to complement the macro-analysis we have performed at the parish level.…”

Collaborative research for transitioning to Climate-Neutral Cities – contouring a prospective framework for integrated planning

“…Previous studies have only analysed the concept of climate neutrality partially or sectorally, with scarce efforts for transdisciplinary integration (Huovila et al, 2022). Urban planning has a major role in integrating different urban systems and multiple sectors into consolidated spatial strategies and lifting systemic barriers to set long-term agendas for lowcarbon and climate-neutral interventions for transformation (Paulsson, 2020;Shahani et al, 2022). However, links between territorial plans and climate policies are weak, as climate policies often focus on specific economic sectors, disregarding spatial relations (UNECE, 2011;da Costa et al, 2021;Santopietro & Scorza, 2021).…”

Towards Sustainable Urbanization. Learning from What’s Out There

“…For example, in Stockholm (Sweden), the urban transformations and modalities of integrated planning are considered successful cases of integrated land use, housing and transport planning. Nevertheless, multi-level collaboration in Stockholm's urban transformations favoring the integration of local actors has had to face challenges, such as the intervention of the central government [43]. In Helsinki (Finland), the agreements on land use, housing, and transport (MAL) for the 2016-2019 period are also perceived as successful.…”