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Background

Things worth mentioning:

Sagerska husen
Hjalmar Mehr
Political movements in the 60s
Rise and fall of the municipal finances
Politicians vs civil servants, how the City of Stockholm is organised (with "kontor"/Administrations and "nämnder"/Committees)

Plans

Map of southern Kungsträdgården with the proposed locations for the metro station exit

A metro station under Kungsträdgården was first(?) conceived in the 1960s as part of the new Blue line which would run from the new northwestern suburbs at Järvafältet [sv] to Nacka in the southeast, via Lower Norrmalm.^[1] Along with T-Centralen (the other Blue line station in Lower Norrmalm), Kungsträdgården station was projected to become the most important station on the new line.^[2] The station was planned with two exits, of which the eastern would serve the Kungsträdgården park. In the City 67 plan this eastern exit was originally placed at Blasieholmstorg [sv] east of the park, but as such an exit would require crossing a depression in the bedrock underneath Kungsträdgårdsgatan, Gatukontoret (the Traffic Administration?) instead proposed an exit at Arsenalsgatan west of Kungsträdgårdsgatan underneath the park itself. As the design of the exit hall progressed it grew larger through incorporation of facilities such as public toilets and commercial stores which would bring income to SL (the Stockholm transport authority); an exit hall of this size would require the elms next to Arsenalsgatan to be felled.^[3]^[4] alternative: SL (the Stockholm transport authority) and the Traffic Administration jointly drew up the plans for the ticket hall, which grew very large as revenue-generating commercial spaces and other facilities were added. A ticket hall this large would require the elms next to Arsenalsgatan to be felled.

The zoning plan for the area around the ticket hall was the responsibility of the City Development Administration.^[5] On 12 June 1970 Kjell Sundström, a KTH architecture student and activist in Alternativ stad, accidentally saw the not-yet-publicised plans for the ticket hall during an unrelated visit to the City Development Administration and suggested that the act of felling the elms could result in negative public opinion. The City Development Administration mistakenly believed that the activists were aware of the plans, prompting them to develop four alternative proposals for the ticket hall which were publically exhibited in Tekniska nämndhuset (the offices of many city administrations) in July–August 1970.^[6]^[7]^[4] This drew the attention of Alternativ stad, which had originally been rather uninterested in the matter (even after the exhibition many in the organisation considered a few elms to be less important than the demolitions at Brunkebergstorg). Alternativ stad in turn brought it to public attention by exhibiting the plans in Kungsträdgården itself^[8]^[9]^[7] Although the elms had been kept in two of the four proposals, Alternativ stad believed the alternative proposals to be a way of manipulating the debate by pretending that the almost-complete plans for the station could still be changed. In the end, an unprecedented 1,350 people sent their comments of the plans to the City and requested the elms to be kept.^[10]

text. SL, the Traffic Administration, the Social Democrats and the newspapers The development of alternative proposals(?) irritated SL and the Traffic Administration, which were nearly done with the station plans and had not been made aware that the elms might be a controversial issue until now. As the Traffic Administration had planned for construction to begin on 1 October, the City Development Administration continued(?) with the plans and sent(?) the plans to the politicians at the Real Estate, City Planning and Traffic committees. While the Real Estate Committee approved the plans

text. The municipal process

text. Hjalmar Mehr, public opinion and the government

Felling attempt and skirmish

Occupation

Aftermath

Legacy

References

^ Stahre 1999, p. 88.
^ Helldén 2005, pp. 38–39.
^ Asker 1975, p. 71.
^ ^a ^b Elmbrant 2010, p. 290.
^ Gullberg 2001b, pp. 101–102.
^ Gullberg 2001b, p. 102.
^ ^a ^b Helldén 2005, p. 39.
^ Gullberg 2001b, p. 103.
^ Elmbrant 2010, p. 287.
^ Helldén 2005, pp. 39–40.

Bibliography

Asker, Bertil, ed. (1975). Stockholms tunnelbanor 1975: teknisk beskrivning (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm: Stockholm County Council. SELIBR 1303796.
Elmbrant, Björn (2010). Stockholmskärlek: en bok om Hjalmar Mehr (in Swedish). Stockholm: Atlas. ISBN 978-91-7389-375-6. SELIBR 11764854.
Gullberg, Anders (2001a). City: drömmen om ett nytt hjärta (in Swedish). Vol. 1. Stockholm: Stockholmia. ISBN 91-7031-112-9. SELIBR 8369515.
Gullberg, Anders (2001b). City: drömmen om ett nytt hjärta (in Swedish). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Stockholmia. ISBN 91-7031-111-0. SELIBR 8369514.
Helldén, Daniel (2005). Demokratin utmanas: Almstriden och det politiska etablissemanget (in Swedish). Stockholm: Stockholm University. ISBN 91-7155-136-0. SELIBR 10006892.
Stahre, Ulf (1999). Den alternativa staden: Stockholms stadsomvandling och byalagsrörelsen (in Swedish). Stockholm: Stockholmia. ISBN 91-7031-093-9. SELIBR 7593297.