Sustainable Stockholm: Exploring Urban Sustainability in Europe’s Greenest City

Jonathan Metzger · Amy Rader Olsson

Jul 2013 · Routledge

About this eBook

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.

About the author

Jonathan Metzger is assistant professor of Urban & Regional Studies at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH/ Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a background as a practitioner in the urban policy field, both within a Swedish and European context.

Amy Rader Olsson is a researcher at the Division of Urban and Regional Studies, School of Architecture and the Built Environment and with the Center for Sustainable Built Environments at KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a background as a consultant in Swedish and international urban policy.