Sweden is at present undergoing one of the fastest urbanisation processes in Europe. The demand for housing in cities and town is high, at the same time as urban planning processes are perceived as slow and slowed down by different mandatory investigations and opportunities for stakeholders and the public to scrutinise the plans. This research shows how a slow process opened up for ideas that made new combinations and co-existence possible. An all-ecology approach based on ideas by Torsten Hägerstrand shows how culture and nature can be understood in terms of local togetherness, collateral processes and co-existence.