ABSTRACT
Urban planning is about the big picture, maintaining public interests, infrastructure and spaces. Without capital to invest, the planning apparatus is disconnected from the actual capacity to act and to see projects through. Property development and real estate seem to have a dynamic which suits the modern transition from plan to project as the basis of agency urban development well. The shift from plan-based development to project-based development opens a space for a more dynamic and complex urban fabric. It also opens the urban system to the dynamics of financial markets, which makes planning based on shared ideals less obvious Kirkenes is a small Norwegian town on the Arctic coast, bordering the Russian Murmansk region. The town has 3,500 inhabitants, and the entire region around it 10,000. Expecting growth following the opening of new oil fields in the Barents Sea, there was a study of the potential for urban growth in the region.
