Vällingby (by most Swedes today understood as "Gruel Village", see history below) is a suburban district in Västerort in the north-western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden.
Vällingby was planned in the early 1950s as a new town. Following its inauguration in 1954, it soon became world famous as a unique, well-planned city district served by the Stockholm Metro and a symbol of the Swedish middle-way welfare state.
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Vällingby (by most Swedes today understood as "Gruel Village", see history below) is a suburban district in Västerort in the north-western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden.
Vällingby was planned in the early 1950s as a new town. Following its inauguration in 1954, it soon became world famous as a unique, well-planned city district served by the Stockholm Metro and a symbol of the Swedish middle-way welfare state.
The agricultural land where the modern suburb now stands, has a history stretching some 2,000 years back (i.e. at least twice as old as Stockholm). The people who lived there were known as vaellingar, "those living on the embankment". While it first appears in historical records in 1347 and it is known two farmyards existed here during the reign of King Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, in the 1922 edition of Nordisk Familjebok the location was still regarded as insignificant to deserve an article. In 1953 the number of inhabitants barely exceeded 2,000.
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