Stockholm: Urban Morphology Interpretation

This is a historic area of Stockholm called Riddarholmen. It was interesting to see how the city's visitor and tourism planners had sought to provide morphological and historical interpretation information to explain the rationale for today's urban form on the site.

Click the image for more detail. The bronze relief shows what was on the site in 1620. (Interestingly at the top of Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, there is a similar bronze relief of the surrounding topography - but not the urban morphology which is a way of communicating human history, and providing a basis for future urban planning engagement.) 

Visitors can read about the changes that have occurred, and see how the land uses have evolved.

This bronze shows the Riddarholmen area in 1750.

This image of a historic artist's drawing is used to identify key buildings, and to relate to the textual description alongside.

A bit of history....

A more modern artistic representation of the area.