Towards a New Village Street

Research Project, 2025 – 2028

The Swedish Transport Administration, Region Kronoberg, Chalmers and the municipalities of Alvesta and Markaryd are behind the project, whose aim is to find ways towards the new village street through multi-level planning and testing. The starting point is initiatives that create value for residents and increase the attractiveness and functionality of their places. The goal is to challenge norms and traditional solutions, and instead create innovative solutions that are realistic and scalable.

The project tests new ways of planning by having actors open their mandates and seek consensus on joint efforts. This involves using means where today´s well-structured but rigid ways are challenged to be able to do smaller tests or efforts more quickly. The work results in the mobilization of five villages linked to sustainable community development while methods for local development are developed. The mobilization can be used further for tests in the project or under the BY2030 umbrella.

The project is built around a design-driven process with feedback between needs and testing. Spatial potential is visualized continuously throughout the work. The approach begins with the development of village development plans that are not limited to problems surrounding traffic environments. In a next step, possible interventions are defined that meet local challenges and opportunities. When infrastructure is key, the project can continue with tests of a physical, digital or social nature.