Hökarängen's Centrum

From 1947. The district was one of the first examples of the many new suburbs built along the new metro, decades after The Second World War, and the car-free center facility designed by David Helldén became a style for the planning of new suburbs in Sweden and for the postwar folk home architecture. Helldén, together with Sven Markelius and Carl Fredrik Ahlberg, pushed for the shops in the centre to turn their shop windows and entrances towards a central walkway, while loading and unloading to the shops would take place from the back of the houses. The same architects had previously launched the same idea for the new hötorgscity in Stockholm city, where Sergelgatan would become a pedestrian street, but Hökarängen became the first center where it was carried out in Sweden. //Wikipedia