Jakriborg is a
housing estate in
Hjärup,
Staffanstorp Municipality
Staffanstorp Municipality ( sv, Staffanstorps kommun) is a municipality in Scania County
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between
Malmö and
Lund
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in
Scania, southern
Sweden
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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
Jan Å Berggren (born June 12, 1946) 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 ...
'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
Poundbury project in
England built by
Prince Charles
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to ...
. It is also a well-known example of
traditional and
New Classical Architecture
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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
Scandinavia, nor with the functionalism that has been dominant in most of
Europe 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 and the
North Sea between
Flanders and
Tallinn, of which the old Hansa City of
Lübeck is the best known example.
History
Hjärup is built on the fields of the village of
Uppåkra, which existed for over a thousand years as the predecessor of
Lund
Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
until the town was moved in 990 to a new and more secure location a few miles away, at which time
Uppåkra reverted to a small town. Jakriborg is combined and joint with
Hjärup 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.
See also
*
Poundbury
*
Bournville
Bournville () is a model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory, and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village where the sale of alcohol was forbidd ...
*
Port Sunlight
*
Welwyn Garden City
References
External links
Jakriborg homepage (in Swedish)
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Staffanstorp Municipality
Housing estates in Sweden
Buildings and structures in the Øresund Region
Planned municipal developments
New Urbanism communities
New Classical architecture