Monday, January 8, 2007

Relocation of a Swedish city center

Kiruna, the northernmost city in Sweden, will have it's main area relocated due to mining activities.

Klart med Kirunas flytt
Kirunas centrum kommer att flyttas till berget Luossavaara vid sjön Luossajärvi, enligt det historiska beslut som kommunfullmäktige fattade på måndagen.
It seems surrealistic to me. Moving a city's core element. I don't have any strong feelings about the city as such, I have only passed through it once when I was on my way to Riksgränsen for some offpist snowboarding. But redefining a city's design and existing structure, it's huge.

More at wikipedia.org.

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