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When the Earth Gives Way

By Francesca Billington · n+1 · July 2026
When the Earth Gives Way
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"A town ninety miles north of the Arctic Circle does not need two city halls, two high schools, and two fire stations. To establish a new city, the old one must die, and this project to destroy and rebuild central Kiruna—known as the “urban” or “social transformation”—has now been ongoing for more than two decades."

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