Blue-green Fingerprints in the City of Malmö, Sweden

"The transition from a traditional urban drainage towards a more sustainable is a long process [...] To succeed you need an active support from the top managerial level in the city administration."

Peter Stahre's much longed-for book Blue-green Fingerprints in the City of Malmö, Sweden was published in the fall of 2008. Peter Stahre was an internationally known expert in the field of "sustainable urban drainage".

The book describes Malmö's transition from a traditional urban drainage in buried pipes towards a sustainable urban drainage in open systems.

In the book 18 different sustainable urban drainage projects in Malmö are described. Over the 20 year period that the concept has been applied in Malmö the views on different technical solutions has gradually changed.

Today multi-functional regional eco-corridors are in focus. One reason for the increasing interest in this in Malmö is that this type of facility has a bigger drainage capacity than traditionally buried pipe systems and therefore can be one way of meeting the effects of a climate change.