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- Growth target as a barrier to knowledge integration and provision of alternative scenarios in urban planning
A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa(2022-12-22) Merikoski, Tiina; Staffans, Aija; Syrman, SimoThe complex task of urban planning requires multidisciplinary knowledge co-creation. Due to the urgency of climate change mitigation and the threats environmental changes pose to urban areas, effective knowledge integration is ever more important to understand the systemic effects of planning solutions. The findings of an interview study conducted in 2020-2021 suggest that many interrelated challenges and barriers hindering the co-creative knowledge production in planning practice exist. One barrier seems to be the time constraints the planners struggle with, which is connected to the strategic and political planning targets emphasising growth. In this paper, this concern is further explored: How have the planning targets of the City of Helsinki been formulated in three of the publicly available strategies and policy papers guiding urban development? Is the pressure to grow overriding the qualitative aims set for achieving the highly anticipated sustainability transformation? Conclusions indicate a need for an open discussion concerning the planning targets of cities: Is the target to produce detailed plans in high numbers, or to aim for the best quality in the urban living environment and to meet the ambitious sustainability goals? - Kiinteän omaisuuden vallankäytön valvontamahdollisuudet
School of Engineering | D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys(2023) Riekkinen, Kirsikka; Syrman, Simo; Krigsholm, Pauliina; Ekroos, AriTässä tutkimuksessa on tutkittu kiinteän omaisuuden vallankäytön mekanismeja, niistä viranomaisrekistereihin tallennettavaa tietoa, sekä vallankäytön valvontaa nykyhetkessä ja viranomaisvalvonnan lisäämistarvetta tulevaisuudessa. Tutkimus on toteutettu Aalto-yliopiston ja Maanmittauslaitoksen yhteistutkimuksena. Tutkimus on jatkoa edellisenä vuonna valmistuneelle huoltovarmuuden turvaaminen osana kiinteän omaisuuden valvontaa -hankkeelle, jossa selvitettiin kiinteistöjen suoran omistuksen valvontaa. Tutkimuksessa syvennettiin aihetta haastattelututkimuksena, jossa selvitettiin epäsuoran kiinteistöomistuksen, esimerkiksi asunto-osakkeiden, sekä muiden kiinteän omaisuuden vallankäytön mekanismien, kuten maanvuokran, valvontatarvetta. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat, että valvontamekanismien vahvistamisen tarkempi tarkastelu tulisi ensisijaisesti ulottaa sellaisten yritysten omistuspohjan selvittämiseen, jotka omistavat kiinteistön tai kiinteistöjä. Lisäksi suositellaan maanvuokrasopimusten kirjaamisvelvollisuuden toteutumisen vahvistamista. Tutkimuksen tulokset eivät tue yksittäisten asunto-osakehuoneistojen omistuksen ja vaihdannan valvonnan lisäämistä, vaan huomio tulee kiinnittää tilanteisiin, joissa asunto-osakeyhtiön enemmistö tai koko osakekannasta siirtyy yhden tahon omistukseen. Selkeä johtopäätös kuitenkin on, että eri viranomaisten tiedonsaantioikeutta tulisi selkeyttää säätämällä siitä nykyistä tarkemmin. - Liityntäpysäköinnin kehittäminen Helsingin seudulla
Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu | Bachelor's thesis(2017-04-26) Ylén, Juho - Orchestrating sustainable urban development: Final report of the SASUI project
School of Engineering | D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys(2016) Mäntysalo, Raine; Leino, Helena; Wallin, Johan; Hulkkonen, Jussi; Laine, Markus; Santaoja, Minna; Schmidt-Thomé, Kaisa; Syrman, SimoTransition towards a low-carbon society needs the development of innovations, such as solutions of low-carbon everyday mobility or new techniques of collaborative urban densification. Partnerships as social innovations are pivotal in enabling these developments. Cities may take several roles in partnership arrangements. The roles can be anything from being project partners in experiments that are closely related to the jurisdiction of the local authorities to orchestrating whole innovation ecosystems. This report summarizes the findings of the two-year project that aim to serve both as useful theoretical insights and as practical solutions to the described overall challenge and to the problems of the particular cases. We have used the term ‘architecture’ in connection to successful innovation processes, and asked what social, operational and informational architectural prerequisites are needed for successful sustainable urban development. We have developed the conceptual framework further during the project to better acknowledge that there is a clear difference between cities and private sector actors as facilitators of innovation. Whereas the companies operate on the markets and may be interested in long-lasting growth coalitions with the cities, the cities are always accountable also to the people. The partnership arrangements are not of the type public-private but public-private-people. Besides the theoretical development, we have been observers and participants of urban development in our case study areas. We have three main case studies: two from Finland, one from Sweden. The intention has not been to study them in a strict comparative framework, although the cases do offer themselves for some comparisons. It is rather that insights in one case have made us look at the other cases in new ways. Many undertakings of the projects can actually be labelled action research, meaning that we have also been active (co-)producers of interventions with the purpose to make a difference, and have reflected on how the action has taken effect in the case study areas. In this report, we will first outline a general model of the urban governance system as a learning system. While doing so, we will also introduce a number of key theoretical concepts of our study. Then, in the chapters that follow, we will use this theoretical basis in our three case studies: the Otaniemi OK process, the Tammela urban infill case and the Malmö case. Finally, based on our theoretical work and case observations, we will offer some policy recommendations for the development of systemic architectures for sustainable urban innovation in the context of Finnish urban governance. Sustainability is a challenge that addresses the whole governance culture. Especially, it calls for transcending the dysfunctional and legitimacy-eroding effects of poorly managed institutional ambiguity with the idea of hybrid governance that, while nurturing innovativeness and partnerships towards sustainability, is sensitive to its own sources of legitimacy and trust.