Climate-proof planning : creative design solutions in Stockholm

Abstract

Stockholm is a city deeply connected to its water, but that relationship is slowly changing. Climate change is raising water levels, overtime faster than the land rises, meanwhile increased precipitation is creating challenges from inland. Urban waterfront areas, both existing and future, will need to take these new circumstances into account. However, there are both challenges and opportunities to create pleasant and sustainable developments in volving multiple perspectives from stakeholders in the city and its surroundings. SOS Climate Waterfront aims to bring students, practitioners, and researches from all over Europe and a wide range of disciplines together to create new strategies and sustainable solutions for infra structure and urban planning. The sites explored during the SOS Climate Waterfront workshop in Stockholm in 2022 provide various challenges re garding contradicting uses, economic tension and, crucially, water levels. Lövholmen is an old industrial site located along Lake Mälaren a lake with an act ively managed water level and the crucial fresh water supply of Stockholm; Frihamnen is the site of Stockholm’s old free port with many cultural values; and Södra Värtan is home to an active cruise ship terminal. In this book, the wide range of creative design solutions that have been envisioned for these sites will be presented to adapt to allow these sites to remain climate-proof.