1. MESSAGES FROM HELSINKI
AND STOCKHOLM
TEN Group StudyTour
22nd – 23rd September 2011

2. WHEREWE WENT

3. HELSINKI

4. 1.Vision to urbanise the city region –
‘areas of change’

5. 2. On a highly integrated transport
system

6. 3. Focus development around public
transport corridors

7. ARABIAWATERFRONT

8. 1. Policy of linking jobs with living areas
e.g. space for creative businesses in
converted pottery factory

9. 2. No ‘gated communities’

10. 3. Development opens up waterfront for all

11. 4. High quality public realm

12. 5. Public art to help create a sense of place

14. 6. Public space with substantial private
balconies or sun rooms

15. ECO -VIIKKI

16. 1. Monitored and evaluated with
comparable schemes

17. 2. 140 popular allotments to integrate
buildings and nature

18. 3.‘Green fingers’ with water system to
hold run off

19. 4. Each site to include experimental
elements

20. 5. Car parking spaces sold separately

21. 6. Solar panels fitted to half the homes

22. 7. New park opens up green belt

23. 8. New primary and secondary schools

24. 9.A multiplicity of designs with six plots
reserved for self-build projects

25. 10. Popular with families

26. AURINKOLAHTI

27. 1.Apartments and terrace housing on a
new beachfront with promenade and two
new marinas

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

29. 3. High quality public realm

30. 4. Play facilities for all ages

31. 5. Large sun rooms

32. 6. Linking the new neighbourhood with nature

33. HAMMARBY SJÖSTAD, STOCKHOM

34. 1.A model for urban living

35. 2. Built to the highest environmental standards

36. 3.The Hammarby Model – ‘closed loop’ energy

37. 4. Hammarby power station

38. 5.All apartments are connected to the
district heating system

39. 6. Envac recycling system

40. 7. Biogas powers Stockholm’s buses

41. 8. StormWater Drainage

42. 9.‘Fish Bone’ with a tram line running
through the central spine

43. 10. Embraces biodiversity with extensive
landscaping

44. 11. Community facilities, such as new
church and medical centre

45. 12.‘Glasshouse’ environmental information
centre

46. 13. High densities support high level of
shops and eating places on ground floors

47. 14. Popular with families as well as young
professionals

48. 15. Reminders of Hammarby’s past

49. 16. Cooperative housing with allotments

50. 17. Communal green house

51. 18. Build rate is five times the UK equivalent

52. 19. Municipality and developer working
together with an ‘open book’ arrangement

53. 20. Design principles are set out in a ‘quality
programme’

54. 21. High quality public realm

55. HUSBY, JÄRVA DISTRICT,
STOCKHOLM

56. 1. Schools provide a community focus

57. 2.Well maintained and respected public
realm promotes loyalty to area

58. 3. Major refurbishment programme underway

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

60. 5. Huge resistance to demolition and
refurbishment at first

61. 6. Community engagement programme
‘dialogue’ to understand priorities and
vote on proposals

62. 7. Quality of first refurbished block has
changed people’s attitudes

64. 1. Concentrate development around transport nodes
2. Promote Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods
3. Support Local Management Partnerships
4. Working together better
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