Moving a City – Kiruna
| Author | Oli Strandford, ed |
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| Publisher | Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing |
| ISBN | 9789189270541 |
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| Status | not yet published |
How do you move an entire city? In Arctic Sweden this experiment is coming to a conclusion, as over the past decade the city of Kiruna has been moved, house by house, to a new location. Founded in 1900 and owned by LKAB, a Swedish state-owned mining company, Kiruna has been an industry town for over a century and has been mined to a depth exceeding 1300 meters. As a result, the mine is so large and deep that the town is at risk of collapsing – you can see the cracks in the ground. Architects and sociologists were hired to investigate the implications and the master plan which was created for the decade long process of moving Kiruna 3 km east. Old Kiruna was demolished, with some historic buildings being relocated using flatbed trucks. An entire new town has been under construction since 2013. The whole economic development of the region depends on the mine, so the inhabitants have accepted for their neighbourhood to be relocated. It is done bit by bit, year by year, and in autumn 2022 the new Kiruna town centre opened.
| 350 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, English |
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
