Rail Baltica & Spatial Planning:

The Future of city-regions

EU and Spatial Planning

Creating a new EU VISION

Helsinki’s Spatial Plan

Cities as ’Drivers of Change’

Transnational Level: Spatial Vision

Helsinki-St.Petersburg-Tallinn triangle

North South Interface

Helsinki City Plan 2050

Conclusions

Conclusions: Spatial Priorities

Future of City-regions in Rail Baltica Outline:

EU and Spatial Planning

• approved by the EU in 2007

• balanced competitiveness (improve EU’s position in global economy)

• social equality (coordinate housing, jobs and environment)

• connectivity (transnational)

• spatial cohesion (polycentric city-regions)

• The promotion of ‘polycentric development’ across the European territory which will allow alternative development patterns to emerge.

What is Territorial Agenda?

ESDP & Territorial Agenda

• The Territorial Agenda in particular provides a Vision and framework that gives expression to spatial planning within the EU in terms of how future development requires to be managed within city-regions

• the ESDP and the Territorial Agenda set out spatial planning initiatives which aim to achieve a better urban balance between city-regions in the future

• the TA aims to achieve polycentric and balanced development between the city centre and the periphery, the new city-region, thereby initiating new patterns of development across Europe.

Creating an EU Spatial Vision

ET2050 aim is supporting policy makers in formulating a long-term integrated and coherent vision for the development of the EU territory.

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A Five-Step Process:- • First Step: Analysing the Present State of the European territory • Second Step: Building the 2030 and 2050 Baseline Scenarios • Third Step: Building the 2050 Territorial Scenarios • Fourth Step: Developing a 2050 Territorial Vision • Fifth Step: Elaborating 2030 Midterm Targets and Pathways

Scenarios: o3A Exploratory 2050 scenario -

Europe of Cities Concentration

o3B Exploratory 2050 scenario -

Europe of flows Corridors

o3C Exploratory 2050 scenario -

Europe of the Re Dispersal

o3D Concept of Cooperative

Network of Cities Clusters

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Helsinki’s Spatial Vision: polycentric city-region

Helsinki City-region:

Spatial Vision

EU’s Territorial Agenda - starting point

3 maps are an integrated set of RELATIONSHIPS

– working, living, and environment/traffic Helsinki

main map represents the key relationships into a

single metropolitan city-region spatial plan

Greater Helsinki City-Region 2040

Strategic Planning Advice Helsinki City-region

Spatial Development Strategy

HELSINKI Strategic Spatial Plan 2008

Helsinki City-Region: Strategic Spatial Plan

City-regions as ’Drivers of Change’

Implementation Schedule: New Development Areas

• land in public ownership 80%

- what /where/howmuch/when/who

• development areas

- initiates 15 major projects

• integrated / coordinated programs

• planning and transportation integrated

• Creates conditions for private sector to succeed

City Helsinki - driver of Change

City Structure

Polycentric city-region

City-region dimension

METROPOLITAN AREA REGION RURAL

Connectivity: Metro and Rail

Future Public Transport network for the Helsinki Region

Existing Radial ’finger’ Rail Network

Proposed new Rail Network: Zero Carbon Helsinki City-region Structure

Transnational Spatial Vision

• Helsinki as a Metropolis

• Smart-city polycentric region

• Plan-led

• City structure: strengthen centre/resource support to the periphery

• Nordic welfare culture

• Energy Efficient; Low Carbon Society

• Helsinki-St.Petersburg-Tallinn development triangle

Transnational Spatial Vision

Helsinki-St.Petersburg-Tallinn Spatial Vision

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New CITY Plan 2050

• Integration

• Urbanisation

• Connectivity

• Cohesion

• Zero-Carbon

Helsinki CITY Plan 2050 •

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Helsinki City-region Strategic Spatial Plan 2050

Conclusions: Spatial priorities

• Climate Change – Zero Carbon Helsinki • Spatial Planning & Land Practices • Polycentric City-region • Development corridors – reduce Sprawl • Metro & Rail Regional development • Extending the City Centre • ICT Clusters: Business Innovation • Balance of New Housing & Regeneration • Balancing housing tenure – social & private • Urbanisation of the City-region

= Spatial & Social Cohesion