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City of Helsinki Strategic Spatial Plan Helsinki.City.Planning.Department.publications.2009:8 From Helsinki.City.Planning.Department.publications.2009:8 City to City-Region City of Helsinki Strategic Spatial Plan 1 2 From City to City-Region City of Helsinki Strategic Spatial Plan From City to City-Region City of Helsinki Strategic Spatial Plan 1 @ City Planning Department 2009 City of Helsinki Edited by Douglas Gordon, Rikhard Manninen & Olavi Veltheim (note: see Organisation page for all contributors from the original Finnish edition) Design & layout: Douglas Gordon Graphic design: Heikki Jantunen Printing: Edita Prima Oy, 2009, Helsinki ISSN 0787-9024 ISBN 978-952-223-495-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-952-223-496-4 (PDF) 2 CONTENTS From City to City-region: Helsinki Strategic Spatial Plan ................................................................................................... 5 Setting the Vision.............................................................................................................................. 5 Strategic spatial development strategy and the Master Plan......................................................... 6 The Key Strategic Issues .................................................................................................................. 7 Towards a Metropolitan City-region.......................................................................................... 9 Integrating the Metropolitan area as a City-region......................................................................... 9 Key Policies:....................................................................................................................................... .10 City-region MAP: the metropolis becomes a City-region................................................................ .12 Successful Business ....................................................................................................................... .15 A diversified City-region with economic balance and clusters of specialisation........................... .15 Key Policies:....................................................................................................................................... .16 Business MAP: enlarging the inner city and service clusters........................................................ .18 Attractive housing – Making the City liveable ..................................................................... .23 Renaissance areas............................................................................................................................. .24 Key Policies: ...................................................................................................................................... .24 Housing MAP: City Living – Regional identities............................................................................. .26 Dynamic Change in the Urban Landscape ............................................................................ .31 A Lively Cityscape.............................................................................................................................. .31 Improving the quality of the green network.................................................................................... .32 Key Policies:....................................................................................................................................... .33 MAP: Lively Cityscape....................................................................................................................... .34 Strategic Spatial Plan Implementation.................................................................................... .37 3 From City to City- region: Helsinki Strategic Spatial Plan 4 From City to City-region: Helsinki Strategic Spatial Plan Setting the Vision The City of Helsinki’s strategic spatial functionally, namely: plan is a spatial development strategy •. Successful Business, for the city-region and consists of a set •. City Living, of development policies and spatial plan- •. Dynamic Cityscape. ning framework. It is prepared once per Council term, i.e. once every four years. The fourth map – ‘Towards a metro- The spatial plan analyses the future of politan city-region’, represents an inte- the city-region and its development gration of the most important regional el- needs and presents a Vision of the city- ements from each of the three functional region’s future principles of spatial de- maps into a single metropolitan city-re- velopment over the next three decades. gion spatial development strategy plan. ‘From City to City-region’ contains This map forms the basis of the princi- policy statements which create the basis ples to be applied in the development of for Helsinki’s new spatial vision. For the the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, while the fi rst time in Helsinki’s history, the guid- previous three maps pertain to the princi- ing principles for future development go ples for the development of Helsinki and beyond the city boundaries and take ac- the areas directly connected to it. count of the region as a whole. The plan One of the main aims of Helsinki’s sets out the economic, social and envi- Strategic Spatial Plan is for Helsinki to ronmental relationships, and their im- incorporate the EU guidelines of Territo- pact physically upon metropolitan devel- rial Agenda on spatial planning into the opment for the next 30 years. The inte- city-regional objectives as well as the grated relationships are set out in a se- corresponding EU document on urban ries of policies grouped around key is- policy. The spatial plan ´Towards a met- sues of business activities, housing, city- ropolitan city-region´, provides strategic landscape and regional structure. These spatial guidance to the future metropolis form the strategic spatial framework to structure of the Helsinki region in a ho- guide future development. listic manner. The vision consists of key themes which are developed into a set of spa- Arabia Wired-City tial strategies. The spatial strategies then form a series of policies under each main heading of the key themes. The policies in turn show the physical demands of city growth and population needs up- on the city-region structure. It is popu- lation and economic innovation which are the drivers of change. The policies translate into a programme of develop- ment proposals which are visualised by means of maps that represent the rela- tionships between the key themes. To- gether, the maps indicate how the pro- posals are to be implemented over time to achieve Helsinki’s spatial vision. There are four key maps representing the key themes. Three of the maps are grouped around an integrated set of re- lationships, but for simplicity, are shown 5 Strategic spatial development strategy and the Master Plan the practice has been to prepare a new Helsinki’s Master Plan 2002 was ap- master plan about once every ten years. proved by the City Council on 26.11.2003 City planning in Helsinki is viewed and came legally into force for the entire as one of the key tools in the making city with the exception of the Helsinki- of many forward-looking decisions. The Malmi Airport area. The previous strate- City prepares plans and programmes for gic planning advice formed part of the the future. City planning plays a key role Master Plan 2002 together with the im- and is integrated together with the real plementation schedule. estate development process of the City. The changes occurring in the commu- The principles of economic development nity are fast and have an impact also on are defined in the business strategy. The the vitality and land use of the city. There- land use and housing implementation fore, the master plan must be ready to programme (LUH programme) contains react to the changes in order to main- the objectives and implementation prin- tain the vitality and competitiveness of ciples of the City’s housing policies. the city in a quicker way. The new strate- The regional programme for land gic spatial plan will guide the implemen- use, housing and transport (LUHT pro- tation of the Master Plan 2002. Further- gramme) defines the principles of re- more, it is important that the City Coun- gional cooperation between Helsinki and cil be able to assess, once per Council its neighbours. term, the modernity of the strategic spa- While the community changes and tial plan and whether or not the master the economy develops it is necessary to plan needs to be revised. assess the impact these changes may The preparation of the master plan is have on the city-region structure togeth- a long and complicated process. The City er with the environment (city landscape) Western Harbour future development area. 3D Render Council approves the master plan as the in order to keep the plans up to date and Oy basis for how the City will manage its de- be based upon current information on fu- velopment in the future and where new ture land use proposals. investment will be located. In Helsinki, The master plan has a long-term per- 6 spective, and is prepared without a tar- Helsinki is the country’s capital and main A metropolitan city-region grows when get year, although it is valid until a deci- city centre and includes the most impor- there is sufficient critical mass to enable sion to change it is made, normally, eve- tant business and administrative activi- better public transport connections be- ry ten years. In the course of time, the ties. A growing region needs more space tween the different parts of the region to guiding influence
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