Innovation clusters or concentrations of creative class are something cities all over the world are trying to plan. There's an extensive amount of research of the good elements needed in urban places like those.
There is one from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as well (Inkinen & Ponto 2017). They studied three largest innovation clusters in the HMA: Ruoholahti, Otaniemi and Pitäjänmäki (Inkinen & Kaakinen 2016). Later, it has been noticed that the same places which are the most innovative clusters inside metropolitan area, have also a highest number of professionals, creative class or human capital depending which features of the residents are emphasized (Kiuru & Inkinen 2017). Therefore, it could be fascinating to research which good elements from the earlier literature appears in the residential parts of the research areas of Inkinen & Ponto (2017). Also, finding some new lessons how to build city that interests creative class, would be awesome. Usually the doctrines have been adopted e.g. from the well-known architect Jan Gehl. However, I would like to bring some older classics under consideration as well. Kevin Lynch and Edmund N. Bacon have made quite an impression on me in their studies of what elements good urban design and urban planning should include. All in all, I have observed one of the case areas already with the lenses of Lynch and Bacon and found some fascinating similarities between real world and theories of good planning. I have thought I could take some pictures and draw some mental maps of the case areas showing what lessons from the case areas could be considered planning new (mixed) areas in the HMA (there are a lot of them, Helsinki is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe), but also planning new areas in cities all over the world. So, the fourth article of my thesis will most likely be qualitative against all the odds, considering the three first (only one published) rely mainly on introducing some advanced quantitative methods. This shift in research methods has attracted me to write already two pages of the fourth paper. The next thing, however, is to finish the answers to reviews of my second paper. I finally got them and they are such supportive and charming that I couldn't be happier to rewrite the paper with the crucial comments of the peer-reviews. I find this referee system such working. Papers get so much better when read not only by you and your supervisor, but two or three professionals more!
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AuthorJuho Kiuru, geographer living in Helsinki, Finland. |