Archinect - Features 2024-11-23T05:35:40-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150012134/mia-lundstr-m-is-blurring-local-and-global-top-down-and-bottom-up-planning-with-the-kalejdohill-project Mia Lundström is Blurring Local and Global, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning with the Kalejdohill Project Nicholas Korody 2017-06-13T12:15:00-04:00 >2017-09-20T11:16:03-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fc/fcwqjgrwfv31umty.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In today&rsquo;s hyper-digitized environment, the local and the global aren&rsquo;t so easily defined. Just search &lsquo;locals only&rsquo; on Instagram, for example, and you&rsquo;ll find photos tagged from around the world. So it&rsquo;s only fitting that urban planning projects, when seeking to activate a new social space, should blur the lines as well. &ldquo;Democracy in an age of social media, digitalizations, migration etc. asks for so many upgrades&mdash;how to plan cities is one of them,&rdquo; states Mia Lundstr&ouml;m, an urban planner and the Project Director of Kalejdohill, an initiative meant to activate a locality in a suburb outside of <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/349/stockholm" target="_blank">Stockholm</a> years in advance of a future development.</p>