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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
LESSONS FOR LONDON