Stockholm, Sweden
City population: 1602639
Duration: 2019 – 2024
Implementation status: Ongoing
Scale: Micro-scale: District/neighbourhood level
Project area: unknown
Type of area: Central Business District / City Centre
Last updated: October 2021

Reconstruction is occurring in the Norra Stationsområdet area in the City of Stockholm, creating the city district Hagastaden (Haga City). In Haga City, an elongated hourglass-shaped park will be created called The Northern Station Park (sv. Norra Stationsparken). The park will run through the northern inner city from Torsplan and Hagaplan in the west to Norrtull in the east, and it is one of Stockholm's largest park initiatives. The first part of the new Norra Stationsparken in Hagastaden was to be inaugurated in September 2019 and the rest of the park is expected to be completed in 2024 (Ref. 1, 2, 8, 9).

Expected Aerial view of Norra Stationparken
https://norrastationsgatan.se/nyheter/vara-gronomraden

Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Parks and urban forests
  • Large urban parks or forests

Key challenges

  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Green space creation and/or management
  • Health and well-being (SDG 3)
  • Enabling opportunities for physical activity
  • Creation of opportunities for recreation

Focus

Creation of new green areas

Project objectives

The goals are to create a park which gives greenery and open space areas near the residential areas. The plan is to install walk paths, water mirrors (sv. vattenspeglar) playgrounds, dining and serving areas. The plan is to create a meeting area for recreational opportunities. (Ref. 3)

Implementation activities

Playgrounds and restaurants will be installed (for recreational opportunities), walking path, trees will frame the park and a bicycle bridge is also planned. (Ref. 2, 9) When the whole "the Haga City" project is final, around 6000 new housing and 50 000 jobs will be accommodated in the district and the Northern Station Park (Norra stationsparken). (Ref. 2)

Main beneficiaries

  • Local government/Municipality
  • Citizens or community groups

Governance

Management set-up

  • Co-governance with government and non-government actors

Type of initiating organisation

  • Local government/municipality

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Unknown

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

Stockholm City, Solna City, New Karolinska Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Akademiska Hus, Locum, Trafikverket, Stockholm Science City Foundation, and a number of private builders are in the process of creating Hagastaden (this regards the whole 'Hagastaden/Haga City' project). (Ref. 4)

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Unknown
... a national policy or strategy? Unknown
... a local policy or strategy? Yes (Is included in the "Vision 2030" for the City of Stockholm, which concerns Stockholm as a growing city and Hagastaden is an important part of the city's work (Ref. 5))

Financing

Total cost

Unknown

Source(s) of funding

  • Public local authority budget

Type of funding

  • Unknown

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Green space and habitat
  • Increased green space area

Economic impacts

  • Unknown

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Health and wellbeing
  • Improved physical health
  • Gain in activities for recreation and exercise

Type of reported impacts

Expected impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No evidence in public records

References

Ref. 1. Stockholms Stad (n.d.) Parker och gröna stråk. Hagastade, Stockholm. Information obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 2. Stockholms Stad (2017) Hagastaden - en vetenskapsstad för liv och hälsa. Exploateringskontoret, Stockholm. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 3. Hagastaden (n.d.) Parker och grönområden. Stockholm life. Information obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 4. Stockholms Stad (n.d.) Hagastaden. Stockholm Växer. Information obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 5. Stockholm Stad (n.d.) Hagastaden. Vision 2030 Stockholm - en växande stad. Broschyr. Infromation obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 6. Stockholms Stad (2016) Överenskommelser med Solna kommun och Stockholms läns landsting avseende kommungränsjustering mellan Solna kommun och Stockholms kommun inom Hagastaden. Exploateringskontoret, Stockholm. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 7. Stockholms Stad (n.d.) Hållbar mark- och vattenanvändning. Miljöprogram 2016-2019. Information obtained: 2017-06-15. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 8. Vasastan Direkt (2019) Snart får Hagastaden sin första park. Source: Source link [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 9. Norra Stationsgatan (2018) Våra grönområden. Source:Source link [Accessed on 24 August 2020]
Expected layout of Norra Stationparken
https://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/snart-far-hagastaden-sin-forsta-park/repsfl!ziK7JffFl7epHXtaFLsZIQ/