Slakthusområdet i Stockholm Ett industriområdes omvandling i en växande stad

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the Slaughterhouse area in Stockholm that today is an industrial area specialized in the processed meat industry. Stockholm is growing by about 10,000 people per year which is leading to hard exploating pressure on the city planners. The area with its strategic location near the city centre is next to be exploited. The Slaughterhouse area was originally Stockholm's public slaughterhouse and was completed in 1912 and the whole facility was designed by the architect Gustaf Wickman. The purpose of the facility was that it would promote a hygienic meat production with a guaranteed quality of both the premises and the meat itself. The paper compare the city’s policy documents on transitioning the southern parts of Stockholm to become an integrated, diversed area with Jane Jacobs theory on city planning. Jacobs believes that a vibrant city needs blended features and activity both day and night and be built up as block cities, in smaller grid pattern that forms small blocks. According to Jacobs the architecture does not necessarily meet specific aesthetic criteria but the buildings must be from mixed ages and built with close spacing and density which is important to concentrate people into a small area. Many people in a small space will create a safe city at all hours. There are many similarities between the city's plans for the Slaughterhouse area and the theorys of Jane Jacobs. For example, the City wants to build neighborhoods in small blocks with mixed features for a diversed city. But the current situation makes it difficult to say how the current policy documents will affect the area because zoning is still not fixed annuals.