Vägnät och kvartersindelning på Stockholms malmar före 1600-talets stadsplaneregleringar

The oldest preserved maps of Stockholm’s Early Modern suburbs date from the 1620s. They contain few real-world fixed points and cannot be rectified in any detail. But there are two work plans from around 1640, when today’s regular orthogonal town plans were laid out, that include rather exact surveys of the organic, unplanned road networks and property blocks that preceded the restructuring. In this contribution, the work plans have been rectified against today’s town plan. And then the 1620s maps have been rectified against the thus corrected work plans. This occasions a discussion of how the early unregulated town plans in Stockholm’s suburbs really functioned.