Helsinki City Plan

Planning
process and
decisionmaking
The making of the City
Plan has been an open
and interactive process
that has taken more than
four years. A large amount
of experience-based
information has been
collected from citizens.
This is important, as the
City Plan will have a very long-term impact on
the city’s development. The process has been
made more challenging by the fact that the
City Plan represents a new kind of strategic
Plan. On the one hand, the wider city centre
area now becomes an inclusive area defined
as ‘metropolitan mixed-uses’, and on the other
hand, the outer suburbs are more loosely
described as land-uses. The City Plan divides
Helsinki into one-hectare squares, with the
primary intended purpose of land
use presented for each.
30 City Planning Department