Editing Sundbyberg Municipality (section)

==History==
Sundbyberg was for a long time only an area of small agriculture value and most of all used as a place to spend summer for rich families in the city.{{cn|date=May 2025}} In 1863, almost the entire area was bought by Anders Petter Löfström, including [[Duvbo]] Estate, who began building houses there.{{cn|date=May 2025}} In 1870, the first industrial plot was sold and from there the town did expand with railroad, houses, industries and community services of all kind. A. P. Löfström also donated to the municipality, all land for roads, streets, parks, school, church and other public areas.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

[[Image:Sundbyberg_generalstabskartan_1919.png|thumb|left|Sundbyberg and its surroundings in 1919]]
In 1888, Sundbyberg municipality was formed with 1,133 inhabitants,<ref name=stadsmuseum>{{cite web |url=http://museetsblogg.se/category/sundbyberg-diverse-historia.html |title=Några årtal ur stadens historia |date=7 June 2016 |access-date=1 Sep 2020 |publisher=Sundbyberg stadsmuseum}}</ref> splitting off from [[Bromma]]. At the time the municipality only constituted [[Central Sundbyberg]] and the undeveloped [[Storskogen]]. Sundbyberg was known in its early years for its beer, its spirited political discourses, its muddy streets, and the danger of the streets at night<ref name=historia>{{cite web |url=https://www.sundbyberg.se/kommun-politik/kommunfakta/historia.html |title=Historia |access-date=1 Sep 2020 |publisher=Sundbyberg municipality}}</ref> (nowadays the [[Vulnerable area|crime-hit areas]] are [[Hallonbergen]] and [[Rissne]] instead<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mitti.se/nyheter/hallonbergen-klassas-riskomraden/?omrade=sundbyberg |title=Kriminaliteten i Rissne och Hallonbergen har ökat |date=3 June 2019 |access-date=1 Sep 2020 |publisher=Mitt i Sundbyberg}}</ref>). Sales of land was aimed at workers and industry, and the relative lack of public services caused a strong cooperative spirit to form.<ref name=kulturarvstockholm/> Suburbs bordering Sundbyberg were also built – [[Lilla Alby]] and [[Mariehäll]] in the 1880s and Duvbo around 1900. While trains stopped in Sundbyberg, they did so at a low frequency, and most commuters used the steam boat.<ref name=kulturarvstockholm/> In 1910 a tram line was built from Stockholm and [[Råsunda (district)|Råsunda]] to the municipal border, and then into Sundbyberg in 1928, running until 1959.<ref name=stadsmuseum/>

A new city plan was established in 1941, prescribing the construction of ''lamellhus'', rectangular multi-residential buildings with typically four floors, leading to the demolishment of most of the wooden houses in Sundbyberg in the 1940s, while brick or concrete buildings were kept. Many industrial buildings were converted to residential use at the same time. Rising housing prices led to a more densely built suburb than envisioned in the city plan,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://h24-files.s3.amazonaws.com/232049/902414-zDYFq.pdf |title=Sundbybergs bebyggelse Rapport 2016:10 Antikvariskt kunskapsunderlag |author=Rolf Hammarskiöld & Hanna Hjalmarsson  |access-date=12 Feb 2021 |publisher=Stockholms läns museum}}</ref> as well as cause Sundbyberg to rapidly lose its industrial character.<ref name=kulturarvstockholm/>

In 1946 Sundbyberg municipality, which by then had 15,000 inhabitants, bought Storskogen, with the first homes going up there in 1952. In 1949 [[Spånga]] municipality was split between neighbouring municipalities, giving Duvbo, [[Lilla Ursvik|Ursvik]] and some other land to Sundbyberg. Lilla Alby was transferred from Solna municipality to Sundbyberg at the same time.<ref name=stadsmuseum/> Since the 1950s when Storskogen was built, Sundbyberg has expanded one district each decade, with [[Ör]] built in the 1960s, Hallonbergen and [[Blue line (Stockholm metro)|its metro line]] (which also serves Storskogen and Ör) in the 1970s, Rissne and its metro line (which also serves Central Sundbyberg and Lilla Alby) in the 1980s, [[Brotorp]] and [[Stora Ursvik]] in the 2000s.<ref name=historia/><ref name=slkonst>{{cite web |url=https://konst.sl.se/om-konsten/historia/ |title=Konsten i trafiken - Historia |access-date=1 Sep 2020 |publisher=Storstockholms Lokaltrafik}}</ref>