Chuck
02-11-2009, 12:03 PM
Over the next few decades, buildings will be lifted and towed, or in the case of maybe Sweden's most iconic church, moved brick by brick...alternative is the hollowed out mountain swallows the town. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzOPvwid4tPO-PYZLje1cIb1xXcQ)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/kiruna11.jpgAPF - Feb 6, 2009
The fate of many coastal cites later this century? --Ed.
Kiruna, Sweden — Sweden's northernmost town has long known it must relocate or sink into cracks shooting toward its centre from a century-old iron mine, but how to move an entire town, and its soul, is proving complicated.
"There are of course tonnes of technical issues: the railroad, the interstate highway, the electricity grid and water pipes and houses that all need to be moved," said Christer Vinsa, the project leader for Kiruna's "city transformation".
"But the biggest challenge lies in planning the move in a way that keeps Kiruna's soul intact and ensures that this is still a town where people want to live," he added.
Tucked way up in the Lapland wilderness, Kiruna -- whose mine is still booming -- was founded around the world's largest known single piece of iron ore, 145 kilometres (90 miles) north of the Arctic Circle… http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzOPvwid4tPO-PYZLje1cIb1xXcQ
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/kiruna11.jpgAPF - Feb 6, 2009
The fate of many coastal cites later this century? --Ed.
Kiruna, Sweden — Sweden's northernmost town has long known it must relocate or sink into cracks shooting toward its centre from a century-old iron mine, but how to move an entire town, and its soul, is proving complicated.
"There are of course tonnes of technical issues: the railroad, the interstate highway, the electricity grid and water pipes and houses that all need to be moved," said Christer Vinsa, the project leader for Kiruna's "city transformation".
"But the biggest challenge lies in planning the move in a way that keeps Kiruna's soul intact and ensures that this is still a town where people want to live," he added.
Tucked way up in the Lapland wilderness, Kiruna -- whose mine is still booming -- was founded around the world's largest known single piece of iron ore, 145 kilometres (90 miles) north of the Arctic Circle… http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzOPvwid4tPO-PYZLje1cIb1xXcQ