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Visions — 1.2.2022

Can the Urban Structure Reduce the Need for Service Housing for the Elderly?

n 'Alternative' series architects improve the built environment with uncommissioned ideas. Sari Nieminen focusses on the city for the elderly.

Editorial — 1.1.2022

Editorial 1/2022: Casino Chips

The opening move in the tower block game in Finland was made by architect Sigurd Frosterus one hundred years ago. Tower blocks are still emerging in plans and visions – but what kind of urbanity do they create?

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

A City That Is Growing towards the Sky

In recent years, large construction projects have brought changes to the cityscape of Tampere. On whose terms is new construction conducted?

Essay — 1.1.2022

Interpreting and Completing the Suburban Atmosphere

In a suburban residential area, what are the elements that determine how the place feels? Can the atmosphere of a place be created through design? Two architectural researchers explore the relationship between architect and place.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.1.2022

How Is Experience Connected to Urban Design?

The importance of social and cultural sustainability is often talked aboutout, but these values are not visible in the data that is provided for urban designers as a basis for their work. Harris-Kjisik Architects decided to collect this data themselves, when the development of the Itäkeskus district began.

Essay — 1.1.2022

Visual Essay: Nothing Decorative and Nothing Functional

Graphic designer Emery Norton studied the urban details found on a walk.

Opinion Piece — 1.1.2022

The New Perimeter Block Requires a New Kind of Thinking

In recent decades, urban development projects have increasingly been based on a perimeter block structure. One hundred years ago, modernists condemned this typology as dark and cramped. So what is different this time?

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

Erik Bryggman and the Turku Cityscape

Erik Bryggman is particularly well known for his individual buildings. His work, however, demonstrates also a clear approach to urban planning.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.1.2022

On the Drawing Board: Three Examples of the Circular Economy

The circular economy can be promoted through land use planning, and not just individual construction projects, states architect Aura Pajamo from the Muuan design agency.

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

Canal City Shaped by Wind and Waves

Ranta-Tampella, a canal district for 4,000 residents is being built in Tampere. In constructing the area, special emphasis has been placed on public outdoor spaces.

Project Review — 1.1.2022

A Non-Place Transformed

Keilaniemi, the hub of company headquarters situated on the border of Espoo and Helsinki, is changing from a car-dominated district to a pedestrian one. Changing ideals have materialised in the creation of a new square.

Visions — 1.1.2022

Alternative: Yes in my backyard

ow to densify a post-war neighborhood to have a wider range of dwelling types and to encourage walking and cycling instead of car traffic?

Book — 1.1.2022

Feminist City – A Place for All?

In her recent book Feminist City, Leslie Kern unpacks intersectional perspectives to urban planning and elucidates the need to re-examine the planning profession.

Book — 1.1.2022

Urban Encyclopaedia

A stylish book more reminiscent of a hip magazine than a work produced at a university department traces the history of urban design in the 20th century.

Phenomena — 1.1.2022

New Districts – How are Finnish cities being densified and infilled right now?

How are Finnish cities being densified and infilled right now? What kind of values are the plans based on? In this article, we will present an infill development plan of an inner city district, a sustainable smart city district and a district with mixed-use perimeter blocks.