Tag: Form-based code

  • Design First or Last? A Fork in the Road for Helsinki’s New City Plan

    Design First or Last? A Fork in the Road for Helsinki’s New City Plan

    In a couple of my previous posts, I’ve stressed my amazement with the quick change in attitude among Helsinki’s urban planners. The message from the planning authorities is that they have chosen to increasingly question the conventional modernist planning ideology and are now actively seeking to add elements of a more urbanist approach to Helsinki’s…

  • Digging into Form-Based Urban Planning

    It’s been far too long since my previous post, but I assure you this is not because I would have lost my interest in blogging. It’s just that I haven’t really found the time to write anything during summer. One might think that summer equals as plenty of opportunities to kick back and concentrate on…