urban academy
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URBAN ACADEMY WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT
URBAN PLANNING – WE WANT TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
FOR CITIES
URBAN ACADEMY – A GAME CHANGER
THE CHALLENGE• Urbanisation is a global megatrend which poses challenges
for humankind• Such as crowded cities, loss of green space, segregation….
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• Urban Academy network & platform: • we convert challenges to opportunities • we take research & teaching from lecture halls to the streets
and to people in an interactive way• modus operandi: we will have planning cases to engage
various actors to co-create a new city with us
THE SOLUTION
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• We need help in finding suitable planning cases• We need people eager to co-create with us• We need wild ideas to ensure sustainable future (for Helsinki)
NEXT STEPS
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OUR DREAM TEAM• experts including researchers, students, city planners and
practitioners, and citizens co-creating urban future
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Jari NiemeläProfessor of urban ecology
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