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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2024-09) Horelli, Liisa; Wallin, SirkkuThe scientific literature has revealed that there is often a discrepancy between urban planning initiatives and the actual development of cities. Urban development is a complex process strongly affected by the self-organisation of citizens and entrepreneurs, who produce services and events, create new public places, and shape urban regeneration through everyday practices. However, the actors of self-organised urban development are rarely met in participatory urban planning practices. The gap raises the research problem of how to recognise and facilitate civic engagement in urban development. The authors of this article have been investigating the ontology and methodology of urban planning and development over the past two decades, culminating in the framework of expanded urban planning. The article aims to present multiple approaches to civic engagement in urban planning and development, based on an updated longitudinal study conducted in a Helsinki neighbourhood. The authors argue that urban planning should be updated with expanded urban planning (EP), which extends the focus of civic engagement from public participation to self-organisation and everyday life practices. - Exploring E-Planning Practices in Different Contexts
School of Engineering | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2012) Wallin, Sirkku; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna; Amati, Marco; Horelli, LiisaAs planners and decision-makers experiment with information and communication technologies (ICTs),it’s important to explore and analyze these attempts in different planning systems and contexts. The aim of the article is to compare the use of and aspirations attached to e-planning in Helsinki, Finland and Sydney,Australia. This comparison will highlight the interrelationship between planning context and its amenability to an e-planning approach and shows there are shared themes in both cases: firstly, the complexity involved in reconciling the aims of the e-planning experiments and their connection to the planning process itself (roles,objectives, implementation of tools and processes). Secondly, the way that e-planning opens up cracks in the façade of administration, and thirdly, the ways in which e-planning provides possibilities to reshape existing planning procedures. The authors argue that the different planning and governance contexts affect the adoption of e-planning and this adoption is necessarily a selective process. - Features and Consequences of Flat Ontology in Expanded Urban Planning
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2021) Wallin, Sirkku; Jarenko, Karoliina; Horelli, LiisaThis paper seeks to pinpoint the consequences of the core principles of flat ontology for so-called expanded urban planning, on the basis of four case studies at the local level in the Nordic countries. However, these not only represent the local realms, as they are embedded in glocal networks. Urban development takes place in them through different forms of self-organisation, primarily outside the formal planning processes and official institutions, varying in terms of temporality and stages of emergence. We argue that expanded urban planning, which is based on pluralist realism, opens up methodological opportunities for a more agile and responsive planning system, potentially leading to more inclusive urban development. The comparative analyses indicate that the application of flat ontology comprises an expansion of the extent of planning, the importance of temporal dynamics in all stages of planning, the adoption of a variety of digital and non-digital methods and tools, as well as skilful deliberation of complex relations between assemblages. Thus, flat ontology should be called fat, as it makes the conceptualisation of planning manifold and deliberative instead of linear and hierarchical. - Managing urban complexity - Participatory planning, self-organization and co-production of urban space
School of Engineering | Doctoral dissertation (article-based)(2019) Wallin, SirkkuContemporary urban planning theories and practices are still dealing with the linear procedures and institutional sense-making. However, a new planning paradigm is emerging.The actor-based perspective acknowledges self-organizing urban development, which is able to operate apart from statutory government and decision-making. This dissertation is a longitudinal case study analysis on local urban development in Herttoniemi, Helsinki. The dissertation is based on meta-analysis of an action research, which operated with the local stakeholders for almost a decade since 2004. The aim of this dissertation is to provide theoretical and practical solutions that enhance the comprehension of urban development patterns in the Finnish context, and to explore the role of citizen engagement in urban planning. The dissertation answers the questions: What is urban complexity? What is the role of civil engagement in urban planning and development? How can e-planning enable civil engagement and urban transformation? The analysis of urban complexities indicates that the civic engagement is an advantage in planning and development initiatives. Unlike the public participation in the planning discourse, which often emphasizes conflicts, the self-organization fills in the discontinuity of the statutory processes. For example, neighbourhood activists created new public space, supported local services and maintain urban events. In addition to the self-organizing activities, mundane everyday life improved the local surroundings and nurtured the local identity, while the formal planning initiatives have been less effective to develop Herttoniemi. The dissertation suggests that urban complexity emerges due to a systemic gap: the one within planning and implementation, and the other between the planners and the local diverse realities. There are several reasons for this systemic gap. Namely, the linearity of the planning procedures and the lack of versatile planning methodology which prohibit adequate approaches to steer and feed urban transformation. Therefore, I argue that there is a need for expanded urban planning, which acknowledges the grass root level dynamics and systemic urban change, and integrates different planning approaches, including the promise of urban and community informatics in e-planning. The dissertation presents different types of urban complexity, and the means to cope with them. - The methodology of user-sensitive service design within urban planning
School of Engineering | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2010) Wallin, Sirkku; Horelli, LiisaThe increasingly complex living environment poses challenges in everyday life that thetraditional urban planning cannot meet. We argue that the methodology, called the user-sensitiveservice design within urban planning, is viable for many stakeholders in a situation,where the infrastructure of everyday life is shattering and the uncertainty and ambiguity of theplanning process and outcomes are prevailing (Forester 1993). Our aim is to present themethodology and its application in the planning and development of digitised services in aneighbourhood of Helsinki. The methodology turns out to be a hybridiser and a bridge builderthat embeds urban planning in the local context. In addition, it is a vehicle for transfering theplanning content to the phases of implementation and use, resulting in the emergence ofglocal digital spaces. - New Approaches to Urban Planning - Insights from Participatory Communities
School of Engineering | D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys(2013) Horelli, Liisa (editor); Jarenko, Karoliina; Kuoppa, Jenni; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna; Wallin, SirkkuThe new approaches to urban planning, such as participatory time and e-planning, comprise methods that allow us to analyse, develop, implement and monitor physical, functional and participatory structures at the neighbourhood level and beyond. They enable models of planning that may bring about an architecture of opportunities. This means the building of a supportive infrastructure of everyday life that encourages citizens to participate not only in formal decision-making, but actually in the co-design and co-production of their own local environment, on the basis of daily and future activities, at different scales. - The Renewal of the Finnish Planning Legislation as a Strategy of Urban Planning and Development
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2023-11) Horelli, Liisa; Wallin, SirkkuDue to global eco-social and technological challenges, a new strategy of planning adopted as the Land Use and Building Act in Finland (2000) will be renewed after 23 years of implementation. Will the forthcoming law recognise the complex relationships and consequences of self-organised processes, the digital empowerment of citizens, and the eco-social content of planning and development? This article examines and discusses the renewal of the Finnish Land Use and Building Act and the forthcoming planning system from an ontological perspective. Methodologically it is based on an assessment of the draft of and comments on the new Act, as well as on a comparative analysis of two case studies that illustrate the potential consequences of the renewal in the Finnish context. The results reveal that the planning system will become more complex. Despite the adoption of a new digital methodology, the Act ignores civil society’s self-organisation and digital empowerment; also, the definition of the eco-social substance is vague. However, the Finnish reform serves as an example of the difficulties that planning systems encounter in the current context of complex problems concerning sustainability transitions all over the world. - When Self-Organization Intersects with Urban Planning: Two Cases from Helsinki
School of Engineering | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2015) Horelli, Liisa; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna; Wallin, Sirkku; Botero, AndreaParticipation as self-organization has emerged as a new form of citizen activism, often supported by digital technology. A comparative qualitative analysis of two case studies in Helsinki indicates that the self-organization of citizens expands the practice of urban planning. Together, they enable the mobilization of different groups around issues related to urban space. The consequences have become visible in temporary uses of places, event making and community development through bottom-up cultures. However, the lacking links to decision-making constrains new solutions and creative actions.