How cultural initiatives and creative industries enable urban regeneration in small town centre like Hauge I Dalane?

The phenomenon of shrinkage among many cities is seemed to happen continuously in the coming years which is a big challenge for sustainable urban development. As a city needs to adapt to social and economic trans-formation, a city is need to come up with sustainable strategies that can fit on the existing urban context allowing a community interaction while es-tablishing the grounds on how a city can foster a sensible development forming an engaging environment and establishing a strong identity. In the context of the Nordic small towns, culture platys an important role on the transformation as it is extensively particular to sustainable requirements, focusing not only on city’s competitiveness, but would be a key strategy to develop a creative industry leading to economic stability. As Sokndal town centre contains the characteristics vital to regeneration, initiatives need to be put on to place to be able to maximize the potential of the city and to address the current urban concerns to sustain future’s development. The neighbourhood’s condition of lacking the environmental qualities needed for a good everyday life and attractiveness in general, is one among the factors to focus on, to address the social-economic and living standards inequalities in cities, by upgrading physical built of the neighbourhood. A development model for the municipality must be di-rected with urban regeneration strategies to give much importance to the improvement of the neighbourhood’s “hardware”, including the physical improvement in the public open spaces, buildings and infrastructure