Gamla Enskede

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Gamla Enskede, "the garden city," is a district of Enskede-Årsta borough, South Stockholm, Sweden. It was created in 1904 to provide housing for workers, and is 2.94 square kilometers. The architectural type known as "the Enskede villa," with pointed roofs on wooden houses, originated in Gamla Enskede.the style of the streets are built to look like a "typical English" garden city, therefore not one street is completely straight but instead the streets are crooked and bent. As of December 31, 2003, the district's population is 10,064, and the population density is 3,423.13 people per square kilometer; among the inhabitants is singer and actress Helen Sjöholm and the singer of Bo Kaspers orkester, Bo Kasper and the former financial minister of the socialdemocratic government, Bo Ringholm and the author Camilla Läckberg.