Articles about Urban Transformation

The urban transformations of the mining towns through the eyes of the citizens

2020-10-27 The mining communities of Kiruna and Gällivare are undergoing a major urban transformation process to ensure the survival of the mining industry. A new dissertation from Luleå University of Technolog...

Harvard students study Urban transformation of the Arctic city Kiruna

2020-10-01 History professor Dag Avango, at Luleå University of Technology, is responsible for an international digital workshop: "What does it take to move a city?" It is held for master's students in collabora...

Creative and sustainable urban transformation

2017-06-12 Kiruna Sustainability Center is the name of a new innovation platform for testing and evaluating new creative solutions for a sustainable society. Luleå University of Technology will contribute to rec...

In the media: Valuation and revaluation of buildings - cultural processes through urban planning

2016-05-27 In 2004, when I was bebyggelseantikvarie the Norrbotten Museum, went Kiruna out with the press release, "We are going to move a city," writes Jennie Sjöholm in a blog post at the New Museum's website.

Heritage Processes in urban transformation

2016-05-19 Jennie Sjöholm can now call herself doctor after finishing her PhD research subject of architecture. Her thesis is about the cultural processes in the built environment; how buildings are valued and r...

To build The Good City

2015-05-27 On 21-22 May, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and IVA North held a seminar in Kiruna on the theme of the good city. The seminar was also the starting point for an upcoming IVA ...

Urban Transformation in Istanbul

2015-04-13 The architecture students Elanor Holm and Frida Andersson have spent nine weeks in Istanbul for their thesis. In Istanbul a fast and from a Swedish perspective pretty brutal urban transformation in wh...

Elected to the The Swedish Association for Building Preservation Board

2014-06-23 Jennie Sjöholm, graduate student in architecture, has been elected to the board of the The Swedish Association for Building Preservation. It is a non-profit organisation that works to defend, preserve...

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
By:IT
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