How Do You Move an Entire City? Ask Sweden

Northern Sweden may be most readily associated with the residential domain of Christmas-time characters, but the region is now turning fantasy into the future of sustainable urban planning — by moving an entire city of 18,200 people two miles east of its current location. Kiruna, founded in 1900, is an iron ore company town and home to the iconic Icehotel, but is slowly cannibalizing upon itself. As the ground beneath the city’s western edge has been mined, deformation is encroaching on the city’s very bedrock.

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