Karl Anders Torbjörn Gullberg (born 1947) is a Swedish social scientist, urban historian, technology historian, and former adjunct professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.[1]
Gullberg was the head of Kommittén för Stockholmsforskning (Stockholm Research) and Stockholmia Publishing from 2005–14.[2] He currently works for the Centre for Sustainable Communications at KTH.[3]
Gullberg has published several books and articles, notably City – drömmen om ett nytt hjärta (City – the dream of a new heart), a history and study of the redevelopment of Stockholm's Central Business District 1951–79.[4] He has also published Images of the Future City: Time and space for sustainable development (with Mattias Höjer and Ronny Pettersson), a vision of the sustainable city of the future,[5] and Congestion Taxes in City Traffic: Lessons learnt from the Stockholm Trial (with Karolina Isaksson).[6]
Gullberg has recently launched the vision of an Integrated Information and Payment Platform for solving traffic problems in urban transport.[7]
Publications in English
- 2004 – City building regimes in post-war Stockholm. (with Arne Kaijser).
- 2009 – Congestion taxes in city traffic: lessons learnt from the Stockholm trial. (with Karolina Isaksson, Greger Henriksson and Jonas Eliasson). Lund: Nordic Academic Press.
- 2011 – Images of the future city: time and space for sustainable development. (with Mattias Höjer and Ronny Pettersson). London: Springer.
Stockholm CBD Renewal
- 1991 – Long Swings, Rent Gaps and Structures of Building Provision. (with Eric Clark)
- 1997 – Power struggles in the making and taking of rent gaps. (with Eric Clark)
- 2014, 1994 – The Stockholm CBD Renewal 1951–1978 Good Business or Planning Disaster? Urbancity.
Integrated Information and Payment Platform in Urban Transport
- 2012 – Urban transport is a useless service.
- 2012, 2015 – Integrated Information and Payment Platform.
- 2014 – A two minutes vision: An open digital platform in urban transport.
- 2015 – Here is the unused capacity in urban traffic.
- 2015 – Digital platform can eliminate queues, with Anna Kramers. A version of this text was originally published in the Swedish daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter 12 April.
- 2016 – Letter to the Editor Economist The future of personal transport, Economist January 9, 2016: The driverless, car-sharing road ahead.
- 2016 – Urban traffic without queues. A movie with English subtitles.