Stockholm Wood City.

Stockholm Wood City.

 Illustration: Atrium Ljungberg/Henning Larsen

Can Sweden’s Visionary Wood City Outrun Its Real Estate Crisis?

Developers are planning a vast Stockholm eco-district even with the property sector in turmoil, saying the bigger risk would be dialing back on sustainability. 

This article is part of the Bloomberg Green series Timber Town, which looks at the global rise of timber as a low-carbon building material.

Annica Ånäs, the chief executive officer of Swedish developer Atrium Ljungberg AB, looks out across a parking lot the size of five soccer fields in Sickla, on the southern outskirts of Stockholm.