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Published in 5 – 2021 - Extensions
Three experts reflect on the impacts of the pandemic on architecture and the use of urban space.
Jan Gehl's ten-year-old Cities for People got its Finnish translation in 2018. Simplified arguments in the book hamper a historically aware development in the field of urban planning, argues Tommy Kaj Lindgren.
Diverse and flexible cities not only require clearly defined and designed places, but also undefined, so-called-interstitial spaces in-between to help them in, for example, adjusting to changes.
Lauri Jääskeläinen charts the history of land use and building regulations in Finland, in anticipation of the reform of Land Use and Building Act.
Along with the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a growing interest in the impact of the living environment on health and wellbeing. A research consortium led by the University of Oulu is trying to find out how future epidemics can be tackled by means of urban planning.
