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Ullared Bygata
Alexandra Dahlén Jonason
Ullared Bygata explores how an existing walking and cycling path—already shaped by strong everyday flows of people—can become a shared, human- scaled village street in a rural town dominated by commercial forces. Working with available space along the path and a mosaic of property ownerships, the project reframes overlooked edges and underused plots as resources for public life. Rather than competing with Ullared’s retail identity, it proposes a parallel, non-commercial civic spine rooted in daily routines, slow movement, and local initiative. Conceived as an open-ended framework rather than a fixed plan, the Bygata demonstrates how incremental, low-impact interventions can connect fragmented places and allow public space to grow through use, care, and collective agency.
