Sweden Is Building the Largest City Made from Timber

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medievalism

Clickbait- and misleading headline. The story is about one private property developer project in a suburb of Stockholm. Not some government initiative.

Given conflict in that part of the world, are wooden buildings a security risk since they can more easily be set on fire? I’ve read that mass timber has fire resistance but I can’t imagine that’s comparable to the fire resistance of concrete and steel.

Guess they forgot why Sweden stopped building cities in wood in the first place…

But hey, it is cheap!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fires_of_Stockhol...