This paper uses Paul A Sabatiers’ Advocacy Coalition Framework to examine how ideas and policy has changed during the process of the relocation of the mining town Kiruna. The purpose is to review whether there is advocacy coalitions in the policy process and whether the ongoing urban transformation has led to a change in ideas and values among the participating actors. The ACF is used to identify, explain and create an understanding of the process from the start of the relocation in 2004 to 2015. ACFs’ focuses on the adoption of policy development within a political subsystem, and the actors' values can be used to sort them into coalitions. The view of the possibility of change in values is that the deeper core values are very resistant, and it is relatively difficult to achieve policy change by changing the policy core values among actors and coalitions. The analysis of the ideas surrounding the relocation focuses on the political representatives in the City Council and resulted in an identification of two leading coalitions. One coalition with the Social Democrats in the lead, are stable in their values and view the city transformation as something inevitable and largely positive for the city. The critical coalition with the Center Party as the main proponent criticizes the lack of citizen participation and believes that the process to some extent has shortcomings in democratic values. Since new election results during the years of the process has led to the Left Party becoming a part of the ruling majority, they seem to have changed their values regarding citizen participation, which may indicate that the coalition itself has led to a change in ideas. The Green Party is the only party that has expressed itself strongly against the relocation in its entirety, and they remain to a large extent with the critical coalition, but argues even more strongly that the relocation process is lacking democracy and influence from the citizens. The study concludes that coalitions has changed during the process, and that the ACF can provide an understanding of the parties and coalitions in the urban transformation process. Further studies and analysis of additional material is desirable for an increased understanding of the policy process.