Albert Lindhagen

Albert Claes Lindh Agen ( born July 25, 1823 in Askeby socks, Östergötland County, † October 21, 1887 in Stockholm) was a Swedish lawyer, member of the Swedish Parliament, urban planner and founder of the eponymous Lindhagen plan. Lindhagen was the father of Carl Lindh Agen ( Mayor of Stockholm 1903-1930 ) and the women's rights activist Anna Lindh Agen.

Albert Lindhagen studied law at Uppsala University and then pursued a legal career. Shortly before his death he was a member of the Supreme Court ( Högsta domstolen ). Mainly, though, Lindhagen was an influential Baupolitiker. He stood behind the new legislative proposals for health law, to administrative law, to construction law and fire law for cities of the kingdom and the kingdom itself It is due to that the wooden houses in the inner city was almost forbidden for fire safety reasons and that many buildings to the urban water and sewage network were connected.

Albert Lindhagen was strongly influenced by French urban planner Georges -Eugène Haussmann and inspired the redesign of Paris. Lindhagen was author of the eponymous Lindhagen Plan of 1866, the development plan for the transformation of Stockholm from a small town to the big city. In it he laid a network of square blocks of flats across the city, separated by wide boulevards and avenues. In this example, the development plan he proposed the Sveavägen Brunnsviken from the north to the City Palace in the south to expand like a Champs- Elysées to a 70 meter wide boulevard. The Lindhagen plan was adopted for reasons of cost in a somewhat attenuated form, but only partially implemented. The Sveavägen was only 33 feet wide and handed in the south only to Kungsgatan. Some of Lindh agent ideas, however, were part of the restructuring of the Stockholm City ( Norrmalmsregleringen ) taken up and discussed in the 1940s and 1950s again.

Albert Lindhagen has also rendered outstanding services in the education and training system. From 1862 to 1879 he belonged to the Supervisory Board of the Stockholm elementary schools and 1878 was instrumental in the founding of the University of Stockholm. According to him the Lindhagensgatan and the place Lindhagen plan are named in Stockholm.

Lindhagen plan of 1866 for Södermalm in Stockholm

  • Reichstag (Sweden)
  • Urban Designer ( Sweden)
  • Judge
  • Swede
  • Born in 1823
  • Died in 1887
  • Man
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