Year
2021

Client
Climate Transition Office
Gothenburg City Planning Office
City of Gothenburg, Sweden

In this project, the Yale Urban Workshop worked with Gothenburg’s City Planning Office (Stadsbyggnadskontoret) and Climate Transition Office (CTO), along with other local planning and development partners, to prepare a preliminary conceptual development framework for the Oklandsåsen area of Gothenburg.

This area of the city, which is situated at the urban-rural fringe roughly six miles north of the historic urban core, which was under intense development pressure from a group of private and public actors, who wished to introduce a new, large scale, suburban, mixed-use and residential neighborhood of at least 6,000-9,000 dwelling units. Uncertainty regarding an appropriate integrated approach to planning of the area, particularly in light of recent sustainability goal commitments (to climate neutrality and decarbonization) had delayed the start of a formal planning process.

The purpose of the pre-planning project was to outline and illustrate a place-based narrative that could frame and inform the near-future planning of Oklandsåsen, using methodologies demonstrated in the 2020 Yale Urban Design Workshop research project DesignCase Lindholmen.