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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