Articles about Urban Transformation

In the media: How to create an attractive city

Kristina L Nilsson, Professor of Architecture at Luleå University of Technology, in the Swedish Radio's Good Morning World.

Creative and sustainable urban transformation

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 recycling and waste solutions, energy systems, socioeconomic analyzes, industrial construction, social sustainability and innovative traffic solutions.

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

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

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 revalued as cultural heritage. Case study is the urban transformation in Kiruna, north Sweden.

To build The Good City

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 project on the 2000 Century; The Good City. The seminar in Kiruna began to address the challenges that the project intends to highlight:

Urban Transformation in Istanbul

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 which both historical, cultural and human interests are trapped.

Elected to the The Swedish Association for Building Preservation Board

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 and develop buildings and settlements of all time.

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