MESSAGES FROM HELSINKI AND STOCKHOLM

TEN Group Study Tour

22nd – 23rd September 2011

WHERE WE WENT

HELSINKI

1. Vision to urbanise the city region –

‘areas of change’

2. On a highly integrated transport

system

3. Focus development around public

transport corridors

ARABIA WATERFRONT

1. Policy of linking jobs with living areas

e.g. space for creative businesses in

converted pottery factory

2. No ‘gated communities’

3. Development opens up waterfront for all

4. High quality public realm

5. Public art to help create a sense of place

6. Public space with substantial private

balconies or sun rooms

ECO - VIIKKI

1. Monitored and evaluated with

comparable schemes

2. 140 popular allotments to integrate

buildings and nature

3. ‘Green fingers’ with water system to

hold run off

4. Each site to include experimental

elements

5. Car parking spaces sold separately

6. Solar panels fitted to half the homes

7. New park opens up green belt

8. New primary and secondary schools

9. A multiplicity of designs with six plots

reserved for self-build projects

10. Popular with families

AURINKOLAHTI

1. Apartments and terrace housing on a

new beachfront with promenade and two

new marinas

2. The use of colour to create a sense of place

3. High quality public realm

4. Play facilities for all ages

5. Large sun rooms

6. Linking the new neighbourhood with nature

HAMMARBY SJÖSTAD, STOCKHOM

1. A model for urban living

2. Built to the highest environmental standards

3. The Hammarby Model – ‘closed loop’ energy

4. Hammarby power station

5. All apartments are connected to the

district heating system

6. Envac recycling system

7. Biogas powers Stockholm’s buses

8. Storm Water Drainage

9. ‘Fish Bone’ with a tram line running

through the central spine

10. Embraces biodiversity with extensive

landscaping

11. Community facilities, such as new

church and medical centre

12. ‘Glasshouse’ environmental information

centre

13. High densities support high level of

shops and eating places on ground floors

14. Popular with families as well as young

professionals

15. Reminders of Hammarby’s past

16. Cooperative housing with allotments

17. Communal green house

18. Build rate is five times the UK equivalent

19. Municipality and developer working

together with an ‘open book’ arrangement

20. Design principles are set out in a ‘quality

programme’

21. High quality public realm

HUSBY, JÄRVA DISTRICT,

STOCKHOLM

1. Schools provide a community focus

2. Well maintained and respected public

realm promotes loyalty to area

3. Major refurbishment programme underway

4. Aim to ‘lift’ status of the estate and

levels of unemployment

5. Huge resistance to demolition and

refurbishment at first

6. Community engagement programme

‘dialogue’ to understand priorities and

vote on proposals

7. Quality of first refurbished block has

changed people’s attitudes

1. Concentrate development around transport nodes

2. Promote Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods

3. Support Local Management Partnerships

4. Working together better

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