Spånga-Tensta borough
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Spånga-Tensta is a borough in the northern part of Stockholm. It is primarily made up of the congregation Spånga. The districts that make up the borough are Bromsten, Flysta, Lunda, Solhem, Sundby and Tensta. A large portion of the uninhabited field Järvafältet belongs to the districts of Akalla and Husby. The population as of 2004 is 34,448 on an area of 12.85 km², which gives a density of 2,680.78/km². Lunda is both a large open space with numerous iron-age remnants and an industrial estate with warehouses and light industry. Solhem is at the centre of old Spånga, which goes back the the Middle Ages. It was created around the turn of the last century with the purpose of creating healthy dwellings for lower middle class people, often working in the older town of Sundbyberg. The slogan "Hem på landet" meaning "A home in the countryside" was adequate back then, but around the middle of the 20th century even the holdout market gardens were gone, and now the area is rather yuppiefied, with a mixture of detached houses and more recent blocks of flats (apartments).
