Planning a Green City: The Case of Helsinki, 2002–2018

Hannikainen, Matti

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_9

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“…Characterizing it as "privileged" in terms of its urban problems (Vanolo 2008: 233) seems justified. And as noted, greenspace -forests, parks and other -still abounds despite pressures on it (Hannikainen 2019). In sum, Helsinki's culture and even its technology continue to display typically Nordic social and ecological virtues.…”

Section: The Rational Landscapes Of the "Green City"mentioning

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Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Berglund¹,

Julier²

2020

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Despite persistent concerns over sustainability, cities continue to be developed that serve capital more than citizens. Where urban politics prioritizes growth, "green" credentials easily turn out to be illusory. Helsinki, with its pro-environmental administration, is an example of combining "green" agendas with a culture of growth and depoliticizing debate. This essay presents two cases of this broadly ecomodernist approach. In one case this approach led to proposing the destruction of irreplaceable green space and in the other, to drawing residents into international circuits of finance and data. This problem does not just emerge from corporations and elites, however. Drawing on Harvey Molotch's idea of "the city as growth machine", we suggest that growth ideology reflects a culture that, following psychologists, we might call WEIRD: Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic. Its claims are founded on a historically particular but widespread conception of global progress that is increasingly questioned.

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Section: The Rational Landscapes Of the "Green City"mentioning

confidence: 97%

Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Berglund¹,

Julier²

2020

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“…For example, in Helsinki, future studies can incorporate diverse sociodemographic and socio-economic information to better identify UGS use and benefit; thereby focusing future planning efforts to deliver CES to those communities best aligned to interaction. Additionally, the geospatial locations provide pathways to integrating infrastructures-green and gray-such as the 'Green Fingers' and transportation toward sustainable development and green cities (Hannikainen, 2019), thereby promoting CES-related decision making.…”

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Linking human wellbeing and urban greenspaces: Applying the SoftGIS tool for analyzing human wellbeing interaction in Helsinki, Finland

leBrasseur

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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This article reviews a study into the relationships between greenspaces and the benefits to psychological, social, and physical aspects of human wellbeing achieved through interaction in the Helsinki urban region in Finland. This relationship is theorized, analyzed, and measured through the transactional paradigm of affordance theory and is operationalized through the use of a public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) questionnaire, SoftGIS, which activated the urban greenspace–human wellbeing interaction through its map-based data collection. Over 1800 unique place–based relationships were statistically analyzed. Findings revealed that Helsinki’s greenspaces provided, overall, mostly physical and social wellbeing benefits; the psychological benefits such as reduction in stress and mental relaxation were not as frequent in these urban greenspace interactions. The results indicate multiple aspects of human wellbeing are supported by interaction with urban greenspaces of varying characteristics within the region but the urban greenspaces which provided the most human wellbeing benefits included large size, woodland typology, moderately maintained with loose or ‘wild’ vegetation, and few amenities such as benches and structures. The study’s implications include urban planning, public policy, and human health as well as insight into the multifunctional design and strategic management of greenspaces in urbanizing regions to provide continued and improved ecosystem services and benefits to humans and nature.

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Science, Art and Other Ways of Knowing: A Proposal from a Struggle Over a Helsinki Green Space

Berglund

2022

Whose Green City?

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Planning a Green City: The Case of Helsinki, 2002–2018

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Linking human wellbeing and urban greenspaces: Applying the SoftGIS tool for analyzing human wellbeing interaction in Helsinki, Finland

Science, Art and Other Ways of Knowing: A Proposal from a Struggle Over a Helsinki Green Space

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