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Headline: Small Swedish Town Will See Eye-Popping Urban Development Experiments

Caption: These are some of the eye-popping concepts for an ambitious urban development project which sees an abandoned Swedish train track area as a potential arena for urban experiments. Anders Berensson Architects are overseeing the ongoing Tibro Train Tracks project ear-marked for the central train track area in the Swedish small town of Tibro. The firm have worked closely with locals to generate hundreds of ideas, with the goal to seek ways to sustainably revitalise small, rural towns. The 300 proposals have been whittled down to 17. Anders Berensson tells Cover Images (www.cover-images.com): “The design is an ongoing project. The project took a corona break and just started again. The next thing that happens is a small project (the romantic crossing) being built in a month from now.” The architects explain: “The project takes its starting point in a citizen dialogue, an inventory of the towns manufacturing industries and the abandoned site as a potential arena for urban experiments. The information from the dialogue and the inventory has then been combined into a grid plan allowing spontaneous slow growth plus a ”smorgasbord” of proposals, prototypes and projects to fill the plan based on what the citizens want and what the local industries are able to manufacture. “The project has resulted in 60 fast photomontages, 16 inventories of local producers, 17 urban projects and proposals and 1 urban plan proposal for the abandoned train track. "The information from the dialogue and the inventory was combined into a ”smorgasbord” of 17 proposals, prototypes and projects to fill the train track area with based on what the citizens want and what the local industries are able to manufacture.” The practice-based research project has been funded by the city of Tibro and ArkDes (Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design) to investigate new methods of urban planning connected to the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

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