Service-poor suburban housing estates?: Accessibility to local services in the Helsinki metropolitan area, 1996–2018

dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorRönnberg, Oskaren_US
dc.contributor.authorPage, Mathewen_US
dc.contributor.authorStjernberg, Matsen_US
dc.contributor.authorIltanen, Sannaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBernelius, Venlaen_US
dc.contributor.authorVaattovaara, Marien_US
dc.contributor.authorJoutsiniemi, Anssien_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Architectureen
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Built Environmenten
dc.contributor.groupauthorReal Estateen
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity of Helsinkien_US
dc.contributor.organizationNordregioen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-29T09:43:06Z
dc.date.available2023-11-29T09:43:06Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-30en_US
dc.description.abstractSince the time of their construction, post-war suburban high-rise housing estates in Finland have been criticised for their lack of local services available to residents. Despite this commonly held understanding of service-poor housing estates, only few empirical studies on the topic exist. Using comprehensive geolocalised business register data for the Helsinki Metropolitan Area for the period 1996–2018, we investigate whether suburban housing estates do indeed have less access to different types of public and private services than other neighbourhoods. We additionally examine whether socio-economic disadvantage, which increasingly is spatialized in these neighbourhoods, is associated with a lack of local services. Our main finding is that the post-war housing estates do not have significantly fewer services than other neighbourhoods, when controlling for their position in the urban structure. We do note several changes to the service structure—a sharp decrease in different types of retail activities, and an increase in particularly restaurants, cafés and bars—and in many housing estates, several types of commercial services have disappeared. However, these structural changes have emerged on a larger scale, and are not specific to the housing estates. The results highlight the need to consider the future access to essential services particularly in those areas, where the prospects for commercial services are weak.en
dc.description.versionPeer revieweden
dc.format.extent21
dc.format.extent23–43
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.citationRönnberg, O, Page, M, Stjernberg, M, Iltanen, S, Bernelius, V, Vaattovaara, M & Joutsiniemi, A 2023, ' Service-poor suburban housing estates?: Accessibility to local services in the Helsinki metropolitan area, 1996–2018 ', Nordic Journal of Urban Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 23–43 . https://doi.org/10.18261/njus.3.1.2en
dc.identifier.doi10.18261/njus.3.1.2en_US
dc.identifier.issn2703-8866
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/124644
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202311296983
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherScandinavian University Press
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNordic Journal of Urban Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 3, issue 1en
dc.rightsopenAccessen
dc.subject.keywordhousing estatesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsuburbsen_US
dc.subject.keywordlähiöen_US
dc.subject.keywordservicesen_US
dc.subject.keywordaccessibilityen_US
dc.subject.keywordHelsinkien_US
dc.titleService-poor suburban housing estates?: Accessibility to local services in the Helsinki metropolitan area, 1996–2018en
dc.typeA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessäfi
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