Jakriborg

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Many of the apartments include two or three storeys.

As a matter of principle, the streets are neither long nor straight.

Jakriborg is an apartment building district, or new town, under construction at suburban Hjärup, between Malmö and Lund in the Southwest Scania metropolitan area opposite to Copenhagen on the Swedish side of the Danish-Swedish border. Hjärup is built on the fields of the village of Uppåkra, which existed for a thousand years as the predecessor of Lund 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 village. Jakriborg is separated from the rest of Hjärup by the railroad Malmö-Lund on the Copenhagen-Stockholm line.

The architectural style of 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 perhaps the old Hansa city of Lübeck is the best example.

The project shows similarities with the contemporary New Urbanism movement and seems influenced by the Poundbury project in England.

As of 2004, 300 families resided in Jakriborg. The constructor possesses land sufficient to complete some 3,500 apartments, and building permits have been acquired for 1,300 apartment units, but the number of yearly constructed apartments is moderate.