Jakriborg is a

housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision (land), subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to count ...

Hjärup Hjärup () is, with its more than 4,250 inhabitants, the second largest locality in Staffanstorp Municipality, Scania, Sweden. Hjärup has a station on the Pågatågen system. The locality has a suburban character with semi-detached houses initial ...

Staffanstorp Municipality Staffanstorp Municipality () is a municipality in Scania County, southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Staffanstorp. The municipality was formed by the local government reform of 1952, when 12 original units, created out of parishes ...

between

Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...

and

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, southern

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. The area was built in the late 1990s by the real estate firm Jakri AB and had been growing ever since. Jakri AB was founded by two brothers, Jan Berggren and Krister Berggren. Jan Berggren'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 Urbanism movement. It is often compared to the

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project in

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built by

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. It is also a well-known example of

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and

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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

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, nor with the functionalism that has been dominant in most of

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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

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and the

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between

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and

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, of which the old Hansa City of

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is the best known example.

History

Hjärup is built on the fields of the village of

Uppåkra Uppåkra is a village and parish in Staffanstorp Municipality, in Scania, southern Sweden, located five kilometres south of Lund. The village is known for its Iron Age archaeological site, which has been actively excavated since 1996. History Up ...

, which existed for over a thousand years as the predecessor of

Lund Lund (, ;"Lund"
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until the town was moved in 990 to a new and more secure location a few miles away, at which time

reverted to a small town. Jakriborg is combined and joint with

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 purchased 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.

References

External links

Jakriborg homepage
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Architecture

History

Population

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