GWCN: Summer Streets of Malmö with Elin Engqvist Friday September 1, 2023 Learn about Malmö’s Summer Streets program with Elin Engqvist who works in traffic planning atContinue Reading
Elin Karlsson is a landscape architect for the southern Swedish city of Malmö and project manager of the summer streets in the city. Originally from Jönköping andContinue Reading
In our investigation of Summer Streets in cities across Sweden, we chatted with APLACE store manager Linus Jaxin on the summer pedestrianization of Kärleksgatan in Malmö. HeContinue Reading
During the summer it also becomes a ‘Summer Street’ with its own unique identity of activities as organized by the municiaplity. In 2020 Manillagatan was a ‘SummerContinue Reading
In learning more about Summer Streets of Stockholm, we are reading the survey Resultat Medborgarpanel Sommarplatser (August 2020), prepared for Stockholm city by Novus.se. These were suggestionsContinue Reading
We recently spoke with Joanna Saber about her 2017 thesis work at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan -“En plats att vara på- Den tillfälliga gågatans inverkan på Stockholms stads- och näringsliv.”Continue Reading
Swedenborgsgatan, located in Södermalm, is one of several Summer streets in Stockholm. We’ve recently begun communicating with some of the businesses on the street to gain insightContinue Reading
Drottninggatan was one of the very first streets in Stockholm to be pedestrianized (along with Biblioteksgatan) in the mid 1960’s. It is also the city’s longest pedestrianContinue Reading
Malmö began it’s summer street program in 2017. The summer streets begin in April and last until October. Streetspace formerly reserved for car traffic gives way toContinue Reading
