Mandeville in Helsinki

European Planning Studies, 2008

This paper investigates promotional images in the Metropolitan Area of Helsinki, focusing on the projection, outside national boundaries, of specific “ideas” concerning the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. After introducing the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, presenting its geographical features, urban dynamics, actual problems and actors involved in image-building, the focus of this research will be a comparison between the images proposed in promotional materials and policy documents by the various territorial units, looking at their differences, overlaps, synergies and clashes. In fact, as will be discussed, even if the images proposed by the cities consist of the same thematic fields (technology, nature, culture, etc.), they contain slightly different implicit messages, targets, representations of the cities, values, strategic orientations and approaches.

Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 2019

This article provides the first historiographical analysis of the origins of Jewish Orthodoxy in Helsinki and describes the development of the rabbinate from the establishment of the congregation in the late 1850s up to the early 1980s. The origins of the Finnish Jewish community lies in the nineteenth-century Russian army. The majority of Jewish soldiers in Helsinki originated from the realm of Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) culture, that is, mainly non-Hasidic Jewish Orthodoxy that emerged in the late eighteenth century. Initially, the Finnish Jewish religious establishment continued this Orthodox-Litvak tradition. After the independence of Finland, the Helsinki congregation hired academic, Modern Orthodox rabbis educated in Western Europe. Following the devastation of the Shoah and the Second World War, the recruitment of rabbis faced new challenges. Overall, the rabbi recruitments were in congruence with the social and cultural development of the Helsinki community, yet respected its Orthodox roots.

2016

Innovations have become indispensable in global intercity competition. Local actors must be able to forge links to different domains of global innovation in order to be able to gain access to and benefit from global flows of values. In this article, we analyse metropolitan governments’ strategies for global innovation networking, drawing empirical evidence from the case of the city of Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki focusses in its global innovation networking on three activities: participating in international city networks, utilising networks to attract innovative companies and talent to the city, and connecting the local innovation environment to global innovation ecology. Helsinki relies on learning by doing in its quest to reap benefits from innovation networking. Its special challenges are to cope with the multidimensionality of global innovation networking, develop a shared vision, and create collaborative mindset in order to get rid of obstacles caused by institutional silos and enclaves.

Journal of Landscape Architecture , 2019

Green areas and their multiple values are widely recognized, but they are simultaneously contested by an accelerating urbanization process. The current emphasis on compact city policies leads to redefining and reshaping the urban greenery. Examples of these new priorities are objectives accentuating a coherent city instead of a coherent green structure, the quality of green areas rather than their quantity, development instead of preservation, and urban character versus nature-based values. This paper addresses the detected paradigm shift in green planning, focusing on the Helsinki City Plan approved in 2016. The research data consists of master planning documents and an analysis of the evolution of green zones in Helsinki, Finland. The paper contributes to the discussion on the opposition and interdependence of green and urban structures in the compact city discourse.

Nordic Journal of Architectural Research , 2020

This article examines the encounter between historical manor landscapes and urban development in Helsinki. It looks at the transformation of privately-owned noble estates and their agricultural land into suburban landscapes from the early 20th century to the present. The study, which focuses on urban planning and the conservation and management of historical landscapes, addresses two questions: How has the historical value of manor landscapes been recognized in urban planning, and how can the integration of historical landscapes and urban development be best supported? The main data addressed by the research consists of planning documents, historical maps, and empirical observations. Four case studies are used to elucidate the evolution of the manor landscape, planning solutions, and conservation measures. The paper emphasizes the interaction between conservation, urban planning, and the adaptive reuse of historic environments to support the integrated management of historical landscapes. The findings deepen our understanding of landscape heritage and contribute to the development of a future-oriented strategy of change management, through which historical landscapes can be meaningfully integrated into contemporary urbanized society.

Environmental Research Letters, 2011

Hindering urban sprawl is one of the main goals for contemporary urban planning. Urban density is considered crucial in climate change mitigation since it reduces automobile dependence and decreases unit sizes, for example. This letter analyzes the effect of density in a city context. In the study the Finnish capital Helsinki is divided into two areas of different urban densities: the high density downtown area and the more scarcely populated suburbs. The study is a continuation of a recently published study on the implications of urban structure on carbon emissions, and analyzes further the main finding of the first study-that higher urban density might have negligible or even reverse effect on the per capita carbon emissions. Similarly to the previous study, a consumption based tiered hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) approach is employed in order to produce a comprehensive assessment, free of territorial boundaries and system cutoffs typical of traditional LCAs. Based on the findings of the previous study, it is hypothesized that when assessing city level carbon dioxide emissions from a wider, consumer oriented LCA perspective, increased urban density may not necessarily reduce carbon emissions. Surprisingly, the study finds that carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions are substantially higher in the dense downtown area than in the surrounding suburbs, which is suggested to imply that the increased consumption due to the higher standard of living increases emissions more than the higher density is able to reduce them. The results demonstrate that, while increasing urban density can be justified from a number of ecological, social and economic viewpoints, density is not necessarily a key parameter in the particular case of climate change. In cities like Helsinki, where wealth is concentrated in the downtown area, climate policies should give higher priority to the energy consumption of buildings, to alternative energy production and distribution modes, as well as to low carbon consumption within the city.

Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache im Ostseeraum - Geschichte und Gegenwart. Akten zum Humboldt_Kolleg (Helsinki Mai 2010), 2011, 111-1191

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The provision of transport infrastructure outside the most populated regions in Finland has been under budgetary pressure for more than decade. Many of these less populated areas suffer a decline of the population, which adds to the stress on these regional economies. The prolonged reduction in maintenance starts to show on the local roads and secondary railroad connections, which in turn may necessitate the reduction of speeds or axle load limits. In the year 2002 the Ministry of Transport and Communication commissioned a study in which the various constituent elements for specifying an infrastructure (minimum) service level are discussed. In addition the study indicated the problems and trade-offs when bringing these elements together in a compound evaluation of a (minimum) service level. The constituent elements are very diverse, comprising technical and regulatory aspects of road and rail transport, social aspects, and economic aspects such accessibility of product and labour ma...

History and Theory of …, 2007

The Declaration of Helsinki constitutes one of the cornerstones of medical research ethics. It remains the most referred to, if not revered, "code of ethics" at an international level. Indeed, it is a major achievement of the World Medical Association (WMA) to have provided the ...