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Originally Posted by ilcapo
You can see a distinction between the innercity (inre staden) and the outer boroughs (ytterstaden) by the density and the way its built.
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Nice! A Stockholm guy. I have a question about this place...
...how did it come to be that there is such a sudden change in planning style outside of the centre? You literally cannot find a 19th-century main street or houses built in rows/blocks outside of Vasastan/Norrmalm/Södermalm/Östermalm/Kungsholmen.
Not even the smaller towns swallowed up by Stockholm have these areas, although you can see they have some older houses. Everything outside of the central districts seems to have post-1950s planning norms with towers-in-the-park, curving streets, strict residential/commercial separation etc. The "outer-inner" areas can be very dense but commerce seems to be located in large malls or complexes, with little regular street life.