Jennie Sjöholm

Biographic Data

ID5641107
NAMEJennie Sjöholm
GIVEN NAMESJennie
FAMILY NAMESjöholm
SIGNATURESJÖHOLM J
AFFILIATIONSLuleå University of Technology
ORCID0000-0002-0440-1464
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Kiruna

    Open AccessJennie SjöholmARTICLEURBAN DESIGN International2026

    Northern Sweden is currently undergoing extensive urban development, driven by industrialisation, climate change, and the European Union’s Green Deal. A crucial factor for success in these developments is creating attractive cities that can retain existing populations and attract new residents, supporting industries that depend on recruiting workers through high-quality urban environments. This article examines how the mining town Kiruna draws up…

  • Planning and Urban Design for Attractive Arctic Cities

    David Chapman, Kristina L Nilsson et al.BOOKPlanning and Urban Design for…2024

    This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic. Attractive Arctic Cities require job opportunities, good societal and commercial services, and importantly, high-quality built environments in order to thrive. The cities of the European Arctic are generally small and sit in sparsely populated regions, with large travel times between places, making them uniquely challenging from …

  • Smart(en)ing the Arctic city? The cases of Kiruna and Malmberget in Sweden

    Open AccessAgatino Rizzo, Jennie Sjöholm et al.ARTICLEEuropean Planning Studies2024

    In this article, we problematize the implementation of smart urban experiments in the resource-rich, Arctic periphery. Our case study is the so-called Norrbotten Technological Megasystem in Sweden, with a specific focus on the mining towns of Malmberget/Gällivare and Kiruna. Kiruna in particular is a well know case study as its urban centre is being relocated due to subsidence caused by underground mining. The new town centre is being developed a…

  • Urban conservation and urban morphology in Kiruna, Sweden

    Jennie Sjöholm, Erik HidmanARTICLEUrban Morphology2022

    This paper investigates the interaction between urban conservation and urban morphology. This relationship was studied using the three basic components of urban morphology – resolution, form and time – in the context of the urban transformation of Kiruna. Kiruna is a mining town in northern Sweden where, as a result of the subsidence caused by mining, a new town centre is being built on a new site and extensive parts of the existing settlement ar…

  • Chapter 5. Reshaping Remnants of the Recent Past in Transforming Swedish Mining Towns

    Open AccessJennie SjöholmCHAPTERTranscending the Nostalgic2021

    In northernmost Sweden, immense urban transformations are taking place in the mining towns of Malmberget and Kiruna, radically changing the urban landscape.The towns were built during the late nineteenth century adjacent to rich iron ore deposits in order to enable mining in the scarcely populated region.As it turned out, the iron ore deposits stretch beneath the built-up areas.The underground mining causes subsidence and, as mining continues, it…

  • Authenticity and relocation of built heritage

    Open AccessJennie SjöholmARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage…2017

    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how different notions about the conservation of built heritage develop in a situation of structural change that demands either the demolition or relocation of a large number of historic buildings. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a case study of the on-going urban transformation of the Swedish mining town Kiruna. The investigation was based on the text analysis of urban plann…