Umeå parking nominated for Sweden’s ugliest: “It’s not beautiful”

Which parking lot is the most wrong and is the ugliest in Sweden? The Nature Conservation Society wants to find the answer to that question in a vote.

A parking space at Skeppsbron in Umeå is among the ten finalists.

– I don’t think it’s Sweden’s ugliest parking lot, I’ve seen worse, says Karin Wallin.

“Could have been a park”

The idea is to draw attention to parking spaces that could instead have been a square, a playground or something other than just parking lots.

– It could have been a park or something that doesn’t stand for this building, which is welcome to be seen, says Anna Lindström, referring to the large brick building in front of the parking lot.

Opinions differ somewhat among those SVT talks to – hear some Umeå residents and visitors in the clip above.

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