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History

Rågsved remained uninhabited until the mid-1950s. In 1953 a development plan was set up for the area. Rågsveds centrum and

Rågsved metro station Rågsved metro station is on the Green line of the Stockholm metro, located in Rågsved, Söderort. The station was inaugurated on 13 November 1959 as the southern terminus of a one-station extension from Högdalen. On 1 December 1960 the line ...

on the

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were built in 1955-1957. The first areas built were the neighborhoods of Snösätrahöjden and Bjursätrahöjden The neighbouring community of

Hagsätra Hagsätra is a quarter in Söderort, the southern part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It borders with the quarters of Älvsjö, Örby and Rågsved in Stockholm, as well as Stuvsta in neighboring Huddinge Municipality. Hagsätra covers a ...

was formed in 1959. In the early years, Rågsved was mostly inhabited by expatriate workers from the inner city, particularly from

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, and was considered state of the art in the late 1950s. For a long time it was populated by highly paid, affluent tenants. While Rågsved was built, an industrialization type of style dominated the construction, and this is visible at the houses located to the north of the subway. There, modernism made its mark, with more towers and slab blocks. Rågsved centrum contains a horseshoe-shaped multi-building which holds different kinds of services and was designed by architects Kell Åström (1920-2004) and Lars Bryde (1918-2002). In the mid-1980s Rågsveds buildings were expanded with Snösätraområdet, where red brick houses with enclosed courtyards were built, much like in

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Picture gallery

File:Rågsved 2012d.jpg, Buildings east of Rågsved centre File:Rågsved 2012c.jpg, Rågsved centre as seen from the metro station

References

Other Sources

Rågsved website
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