Biblioteksgatan (

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for "Library Street") is a street in

Norrmalm Norrmalm is a city district in Stockholm, Sweden. History Norrmalm is part of the larger borough of Norrmalm (''Norrmalms stadsdelsområde''). The southern part of the district, Lower Norrmalm (''Nedre Norrmalm''), also known as City, cons ...

in central Stockholm. The street starts out as a

pedestrian street Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in whi ...

Norrmalmstorg Norrmalmstorg () is a town square in central Stockholm, Sweden. It connects shopping streets Hamngatan and Biblioteksgatan and is the starting point for tram travellers with the Djurgården line. Close to the southwest is the park Kungsträdgår ...

until it passes

Stureplan Stureplan is a public square in central Stockholm, between Norrmalm and Östermalm. The square connects the major streets Kungsgatan, Birger Jarlsgatan and Sturegatan. The buildings around the square house offices of banks and other financia ...

, whereafter it continues towards

Humlegården Humlegården is a major park in the district of Östermalm in Stockholm, Sweden. The park borders on Karlavägen in the north, Sturegatan in the east, Humlegårdsgatan in the south and Engelbrektsgatan in the west. It is the location of the Swe ...

and the Royal Library. The street is a well-known shopping street with many luxurious brand stores and some of the highest rent levels for retail in Stockholm. In 2010 the dominant real estate owner of the area, Hufvudstaden, launched an effort to incorporate the streets crossing Biblioteksgatan in a larger shopping district they want to call ''Bibliotekstan'' ("Library Town"). The concept is influenced by a similar campaign in London to expand the shopping street Carnaby Street into a " Carnaby Village".Klas Andersson, "Shoppingstriden hårdnar i Stockholm", ''

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'', 10 March 2010. The author of the article points out that Hufvudstaden has chosen to use the name ''Bibliotekstan'' with a single s, rather than the grammatically more correct ''Biblioteksstan''.

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