5/2016 Helsinki, city boulevards
Infill is the in-word today. Instead of building residential districts on the urban margin, the current trend is to make cities denser through infill development. Now the ideal is urban compactness which is assumed to reinforce social cohesion. Cities thrive on speed and diversity. The future path marked out for Helsinki, Finland’s biggest growth centre, lies in city boulevards as outlined in a new City Plan. Helsinki’s future urban structure is evaluated by the Director of Strategic Urban Planning Division Rikhard Manninen, Urban Planner Teemu Jama and Professor and Researcher Kimmo Lapintie. What are the joys and advantages of the new urbanism? And what are the problems? This issue also discusses the current plans for the City…
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editorial | Cities grow, ideals change
Jorma Mukala
Future Helsinki: city boulevards
Helsinki's new direction
Rikhard Manninen
A New Hope
Teemu Jama
O Brave New Urbanism
Kimmo Lapintie
Löyly, Helsinki
Avanto Architects
Allas Sea Pool, Helsinki
Huttunen–Lipasti–Pakkanen Architects
Satakunnankatu 21, Tampere
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects
Lahti Travel Centre
JKMM
finlandia | Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2016
Miina Jutila
tampere | Tampere grows on the roofs and shores
Iida Kalakoski
dreams | Jari Huhtaniemi
Miina Jutila
florence | The alphabet of the streets
Hannu Salmi
utopia | Back to the futures
Julius Jääskeläinen
speaker's corner | Art for an increasingly compact city
Li Andersson
books | How the City Moved to Mr Sun
Esa Laaksonen
déjà-vu | Airi Seikkala-Viertokangas, Märtha Lilius-Tallroth – The Rautpohja factory apartment blocks 1938–40
Sanna Meriläinen