Urban transformation - Luleå University of Technology

Urban transformation of the Arctic cities Kiruna and Malmberget

More than 40 researchers at Luleå University of Technology, as well as international researchers, are involved in the major urban transformation of the Arctic cities Kiruna and Malmberget. Interdisciplinary research, in close collaboration with the municipalities as well as a large number of companies, will develop innovative, sustainable solutions for the construction of the new cities.

Attractive and sustainable cities in cold climates

The interdisciplinary research project Attract integrate social, economic, ecological and technical aspects, in order to achieve attractive and sustainable housing in cold climates.

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Future storm water managing

The aim of the project GreenBlue Cities is to develop knowledge and tools required to seize the opportunities arising from future challenges to manage urban storm water.

Agatino Rizzo, associate professor of planning and architecture at Luleå University of Technology.

Small scale electricity producers in cities

Cities are the biggest polluters and must transform their energy systems. Researchers at Luleå University of Technology will now investigate how to support "prosumers", people who produce and consume energy, by using design thinking and participatory strategies. Porsön district in Luleå will become a testbed for such methods.

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 analyses, industrial construction, social sustainability and innovative traffic solutions.

Alice - Attractive living in a cold climate

ALICE – research on sustainable community planning

The project aims to study how socio-technical systems can be more durable in cold climates.

Heritagisation in Urban Transformation Processes

In the research project Urban Heritage Environments – Heritagisation in Urban Transformation Processes, we study heritagisation in the built environment, and analyse processes in which buildings and built environments are transformed into cultural heritage. The project focuses on heritagisation in urban transformations and regenerations.

Safety at workplaces in the mining industry

The purpose of the project Efficient cooperation is to study safety and coordination at joint workplaces in the mining industry.

Arctic

Luleå University of Technology is participating in a new, unique collaboration with universities in Norway and Finland about the Arctic.

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