VÄLLINGBY, STOCKHOLM

<table><tr><td>Designer</td><td>Stockholm City Planning Commission under the direction of Sven Markelius; Architects: Sven Backstrom and Leif Reinus (shopping center), Magnus Ahlgren (subway building)</td></tr><tr><td>Date</td><td>Completed 1957</td></tr></table>

Vällingby is a satellite town on the outskirts of Stockholm, the first of several such towns planned by the city of Stockholm in an effort to concentrate fringe growth and preserve open space. These developments are possible because Stockholm has long followed a policy of buying open land adjacent to its borders. The site of Vällingby, four square miles, was farmland when the city bought it in 1930.

The Vällingby site was selected for the pilot project in suburban town development partly because of a fine natural landscape but mainly because of its location on a spur of the rapid transit system that feeds into the center of Stockholm. From Vällingby, the subway covers the nine miles to Stockholm in twenty-five

Apartments surround the shopping center placed directly above the transit lines.

VÄLLINGBY, STOCKHOLM