Hammarby Sjostad, Stockholm, Sweden: A Case Study 2007 - Hammarby

hammarby sjostad, stockholm, sweden: a case study 2007 - hammarby

Unlike the two-party system in the US, there are many more political parties in the Swedish government. “The voter distribution between parties makes it necessary to have at least three parties in coalition in order to form a majority” How this has manifested itself in the past 10 years is a shift back and forth between the left and right wings of government with a constant green association tying both parties toward an environmental center (Dastur 2005). In his paper entitled Conflicting Perspectives in the Development of Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Dick Urban Vestbro, a member of Stockholm City Council from 1994 to 2002 describes how these shifts in coalition majority affected the social equity and environmental objectives of the district’s development (Vestbro 2005).