hammarby sjöstad case study

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This issue could have been avoided if the environmental focus for area had been applied in an earlier stage of the planning process.With a goal that 80 percent of the travel by people living and working in the area should be done by public transportation, bike, or walking, investments in a high-capacity public transportation system consisting of trams, biogas-fueled buses, and boat buses have been critical.Hammarby Sjöstad was initially designed to have very few parking lots, but opinions from prospective residents forced planners to increase the number of parking lots. 0000002100 00000 n The Hammarby Sjöstad project is due to be completed in 2017, with approximately 20,000 residents at present. 0000024875 00000 n 0000001181 00000 n A commissioned study in 2008 found that the project had already come very close to its stated goals (source: Grontmij, 2008). Hammarby Sjöstad–an interdisciplinary case study of the integration of photovoltaics in a new ecologically sustainable residential area in Stockholm - ScienceDirect Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells Volume 75, Issues 3–4, 1 February 2003, Pages 761-765 0000346537 00000 n 0000006351 00000 n The soil was heavily polluted from previous use and had to be cleaned before any construction could start.Today 25,000 people are living in the 11,000 apartments in Hammarby Sjöstad. The data for the study was collected through qualitative research method, conducting interviews of the residents in Hammarby Sjöstad. The area’s location as a natural continuation of Stockholm’s inner city has helped shape the infrastructure, planning and design of the buildings. Hammarby is included in many publications, for example in the recent Ecological Design by Nancy Rottle (2011). 0000038460 00000 n 0000002621 00000 n 0000042264 00000 n 0000346917 00000 n Hammarby sjöstad (Hammarby Lake City) is an urban development project directly south of Stockholm’s South Island. 0000002135 00000 n The planning process also provided new platforms for discussing local environmental goals.Using a systems perspective helped Hammarby Sjöstad achieve its environmental goals by linking district heating, sewage treatment, biogas production, and waste management into an integrated system. A small, but important grant in the form of a local investment program from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency made it possible for developers to meet the environmental goals.Since Hammarby Sjöstad was a new residential area, it wasn’t residential groups that pushed for sustainable development, but rather the city itself. 0000007175 00000 n

0000011982 00000 n 0000003058 00000 n 0000013431 00000 n 0000009983 00000 n A local information center serving the community has been one way to communicate the ideas of sustainable living.Since the area was formerly occupied by people on the outskirts of society, some criticism arose regarding displacing socially vulnerable groups.Hammarby Sjöstad is now an upper-middle-class, family-oriented neighborhood dominated by residents in their 30s to 40s with young children. x�b```b``cg`g`�� ʀ �l@����U����مK3g喹}�r:�?K���R�Ŵ�!�E�≂ `v���)���=T�^���n�o������|e"T With the theory of New Urbanism, the project neighborhood is scrutinized, to find out how sustainable it actually is and how well it relates to the EU’s Urban Agenda. Residents are offered recycling stations and food waste collection for biogas production. %%EOF 0000011317 00000 n Biking, walking and car-pooling are also supported means. 0000004360 00000 n trailer 0000042790 00000 n Residents will live in the roughly 0,000 ne homes that will be constructed on the site. 493 0 obj<>stream The Hammarby Sjöstad area was originally intended to be an olympic village for Stockholm’s application to the 2004 summer Olympics. This case study provides a comprehensive look at the sustainable urban development process of Hammarby Sjöstad.