A City of All Shapes and Sizes
In 2012, the city is built from the bottom up. There is more variation in the urban pattern: townhouses, bigger complexes, new and old buildings next to each other. Helsinki is more dense and interesting because of it. Communal housing is becoming popular and people increasingly combine living and working under the same roof.
Re-thinking urban planning, management and land use policy has given more freedom for individual builders, opening up the city plan to both commercial and social interests. The valuable original characters of places are preserved while people create new layers to the city, mixing new and old.
Instead of planning too much before things get built, the city demonstrates flexibility and tests ideas before carrying out big plans. A lotting system could be introduced to distribute the urban spaces for businesses and other organisations. Communality in ownership and bottom-up approaches to planning encourage a richer city.
A City of All Shapes and Sizes
In 2012, the city is built from the bottom up. There is more variation in the urban pattern: townhouses, bigger complexes, new and old buildings next to each other. Helsinki is more dense and interesting because of it. Communal housing is becoming popular and people increasingly combine living and working under the same roof.
Re-thinking urban planning, management and land use policy has given more freedom for individual builders, opening up the city plan to both commercial and social interests. The valuable original characters of places are preserved while people create new layers to the city, mixing new and old.
Instead of planning too much before things get built, the city demonstrates flexibility and tests ideas before carrying out big plans. A lotting system could be introduced to distribute the urban spaces for businesses and other organisations. Communality in ownership and bottom-up approaches to planning encourage a richer city.
