Centre for Urban and Regional Studies Publications A 32 Espoo 2005 EXPERIENCE AND CONFLICT The dialectics of the production of public urban space in the light of new event venues in Helsinki 1993–2003 Panu Lehtovuori AB TEKNILLINEN KORKEAKOULU TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT HELSINKI UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE D’HELSINKI Centre for Urban and Regional Studies Publications A 32 Espoo 2005 EXPERIENCE AND CONFLICT The dialectics of the production of public urban space in the light of new event venues in Helsinki 1993–2003 Panu Lehtovuori Academic dissertation Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology to be presented with due permission of the Department of Architecture for public examination and debate in Auditorium B at Helsinki University of Technology (Espoo, Finland) on Saturday, 11 of June, 2005, at 12 o'clock noon. Helsinki University of Technology Centre for Urban and Regional Studies Distribution: Helsinki University of Technology Centre for Urban and Regional Studies PB 9300 FIN-02015 HUT Tel. +358-9-451 4083 Fax +358-9-451 4071 E-mail:
[email protected] Http://www.hut.fi/Yksikot/YTK/ Photos ‘Kide’ installation in front of the Helsinki Cathedral, January 2000 of cover (photo Panu Lehtovuori) Human Wall demonstration in Makasiinit, September 2000 (photo Laura Mänki) Layout Marina Johansson ISBN 951-22-7662-3 ISSN 1455-7789 Frenckellin kirjapaino Oy Espoo 2005 ABSTRACT Why do new urban spaces lack feeling, power and sensory quality? Why does ‘urbanness’ retreat from the newly produced public spaces? Why does the political significance of urban space seem to be lost? In this research, the structures of thinking in planning and architecture are identified as a key reason for those problems.