Towards an Interactive Winter City- New Directions for Kiruna

• Main Author: Sarkar, Wrishitesh
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö 2020
• Subjects: winter city; Kiruna; Sweden; Lapland; urban deformation; interactive urban spaces; sustainable urban design; climate comfort; summer; winter; landscape; urban strategies; Arts and Architecture; Arctic; Tuolluvaara
• Online Access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9029789

Kiruna, the northernmost city in the sub-arctics of Sweden, is currently witnessing an unprecedented deformation and reformation of the urban form due to the ongoing erosion of the land mass. This has made it necessary to move the city centre around 3 kilometres to the east. Due to the deformation t...