Jakriborg
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Housing estate
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, or new town in Hjärup
Hjärup
Hjärup is a locality, situated in Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 4,885 inhabitants in 2005.Hjärup has a station on the Skåne commuter rail system. The locality has a suburban character with semi-detached houses initially built in the 1960s–1970s on Lundaslätten, the...
, Staffanstorp Municipality
Staffanstorp Municipality
Staffanstorp Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County, southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Staffanstorp. Uppåkra, the former location for the city of Lund, is located in the municipality....
between Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
and Lund
Lund
-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...
in Scania
Scania
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, southern Sweden
Sweden
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. The area was built in the late 1990s by the real estate firm Jakri AB
Aktiebolag
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and has been growing ever since. Jakri AB was founded by two brothers, Jan Berggren and Krister Berggren. Jan Berggren
Jan Berggren
Jan Å Berggren is a well known Swedish Real Estate developer who co-founded Jakri AB in 1983. Berggren is best known for his pioneering new urban village project, Jakriborg near Lund in South Sweden or Skåne County. Jan Berggren and his younger brother and partner Krister built Jakri AB initially...
's project was realised through collaboration with the two architects Robin Manger Architect SAR/MSA and Marcus Axelsson Architect SAR/MSA. The Jakriborg project displays similarities with the contemporary New Urbanised movement
New urbanism
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and is often compared to the Poundbury
Poundbury
Poundbury is an experimental new town or urban extension on the outskirts of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England.The development is built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. It is built according to the principles of Prince Charles...
project in England
England
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built by Prince Charles.
Architecture
Jakriborg's architectural style has a variety of intricate maze-like streets and passageways. Jakriborg is not connected to traditional styles of other, more northern, parts of ScandinaviaScandinavia
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, nor with the functionalism that has been dominant in most of Europe
Europe
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for much of the 20th century. Instead, the style is inspired by pre-industrial town architecture found in the coastal region of the southern Baltic
Baltic Sea
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and the North Sea
North Sea
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between Flanders
Flanders
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and Tallinn
Tallinn
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, of which the old Hansa City of Lübeck
Lübeck
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is the best known example. Jakriborg has been criticised by architects as a pastiche
Pastiche
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of a medieval town.
History
Hjärup is built on the fields of the village of UppåkraUppåkra
Uppåkra is a village located five kilometres south of Lund in Scania in southernmost Sweden.-History:Uppåkra was situated on the ancient main road between Trelleborg and Helsingborg in what was to become the Danish kingdom. The original foundation of Uppåkra is dated to the first century AD,...
, which existed for over a thousand years as the predecessor of Lund
Lund
-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...
until the town was moved in 990 to a new and more secure location a few miles away, at which time Uppåkra
Uppåkra
Uppåkra is a village located five kilometres south of Lund in Scania in southernmost Sweden.-History:Uppåkra was situated on the ancient main road between Trelleborg and Helsingborg in what was to become the Danish kingdom. The original foundation of Uppåkra is dated to the first century AD,...
reverted to a small town. Jakriborg is combined and joint with Hjärup
Hjärup
Hjärup is a locality, situated in Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 4,885 inhabitants in 2005.Hjärup has a station on the Skåne commuter rail system. The locality has a suburban character with semi-detached houses initially built in the 1960s–1970s on Lundaslätten, the...
by the railroad Malmö-Lund on the Copenhagen-Stockholm line.
Population
Initially Jakriborg started with less than 300 families and by 2005 had over 500 families. However a vast portion of the surrounding land was purchase in 2002 by Jakri AB which has additional space to further expand the town district by more than ten times its current size and capacity. Jakri AB have stated that they do not intend on rapidly growing Jakriborg as they believe growth should happen naturally through organic increase of the society. Therefore the number of yearly constructed apartment units remains deliberately moderate.External links
- Jakriborg homepage (in Swedish)
- Visitors' photo galleries: