Liisa HorelliAalto University · Department of Land Use
Liisa Horelli
PhD
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Liisa Horelli currently works at the Department of Land Use, Aalto University. Liisa does research in Positive Psychology. Their current project is 'Engendering urban planning in different types of planning contexts' which has now been published by the European Planning Studies. Liisa is expanding it by participating in a Routledge book project to be published in 2019, called Gender and Spatial Planning in which she writes a methodological chapter on, how to evaluate spatial development from the gender+ perspective.
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This paper seeks to pinpoint the consequences of the core principles of flat ontology for so-called expanded urban planning, on the basis of four case studies at the local level in the Nordic countries. However, these not only represent the local realms, as they are embedded in glocal networks. Urban development takes place in them through differen...
The complexity of the planning context has raised criticism against public participation for being a rigid top-down endeavour which does not recognize the different communicative needs and necessary working modes in the engagement of broad publics and collaborative small groups. Consequently, the problem is how to improve public participation so th...
Cities are rapidly transforming into complex places which traditional approaches to urban planning have difficulties to deal with. The new EU- and UN-urban agendas still lack gender-awareness concerning the supportive infrastructure of everyday life that enhances the opportunities for both women and men with different backgrounds and orientations t...
Participation as self-organization has emerged as a new form of citizen activism, often supported by digital technology. A comparative qualitative analysis of two case studies in Helsinki indicates that the self-organization of citizens expands the practice of urban planning. Together, they enable the mobilization of different groups around issues...
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Smart city is currently a trendy concept that has been promoted by many international companies, universities and cities, such as IBM, CISCO, MIT, Shanghai, as well as the European Union. This top down, technocratic approach has been severely criticized in many academic publications. Concurrently there is an increasing buzz emerging from...
Editorial - JoCI Spedical Issue on URban Planning and Community Informatics
As planners and decision-makers experiment with information and communication technologies (ICTs), it’s important to explore and analyze these attempts in different planning systems and contexts. The aim of the article is to compare the use of and aspirations attached to e-planning in Helsinki, Finland and Sydney, Australia. This comparison will...
Cohousing is here referred to as a form of housing with communal spaces, shared facilities and activities. Irrespective of the long history of cohousing, it constitutes only a small part of the total housing stock even in countries that regard cohousing as an alternative dwelling choice. Surprisingly, the importance of shared spaces has often been...
Finland is a small, technology savvy country that has excelled with mobile phones, GNU/Linux systems and other communication devices, since the 1990s, and where Internet penetration is very high. During the past decade, the emergence of social media has given impetus to a renaissance of self-organising groups, events, happenings and actions in many...
Today's development of alternative types of housing with communal spaces and shared facilities, called co-housing, has been influenced by utopian visions, practical proposals and implemented projects far back in the past. This article traces the driving forces behind the various models of communitarian settlements, cooperative housekeeping, central...
The application of ICTs has turned everyday life increasingly glocal with both positive and negative consequences. However, the local and the global are not polarities but interdependent categories representing multilayered space, which may be shaped, to a certain degree, through participatory e-planning. With participatory e-planning we mean the s...
As planners and decision-makers experiment with information and communication technologies (ICTs), it’s important to explore and analyze these attempts in different planning systems and contexts. The aim of the article is to compare the use of and aspirations attached to e-planning in Helsinki, Finland and Sydney, Australia. This comparison will hi...
The increasingly complex living environment poses challenges in everyday life that the traditional urban planning cannot meet. We argue that the methodology, called the user-sensitive service design within urban planning, is viable for many stakeholders in a situation, where the infrastructure of everyday life is shattering and the uncertainty and...
The aim of the article is to present and discuss the potentials of community informatics for participatory planning and design, as well as for ICT-mediated participation in general. The article is based on a case study of the co-design of a shared yard in Helsinki. The application of ICTs meant that tools such as the local website and the Urban Med...
As e-planning takes place in a complex and dynamic context, consisting of many stakeholders with a diversity of interests, it benefits from an evaluation approach that assists in the monitoring, supporting and provision of feedback. For this purpose, we have created a new approach to e-planning, called the Future-making assessment. It comprises a f...
Despite the rich literature on networks, publications on the evaluation of networks are scarce. The aim of the article is to present the core concepts of network evaluation in the context of local and regional development, and a case study in Finnish North-Karelia. It is argued that network evaluation from the everyday life perspective (NEELP) is a...
The aim of this article is to present the results of an assessment and comparison of urban child-friendliness conducted in two similar suburban neighborhoods in Helsinki and Rome. We explore the interpretations of 11 and 12-year-old children, their mothers or fathers, elderly people and professionals in the two cultures, which have different styles...
The aim of the article is to define some criteria of human-friendly environments and to explain why the concept of environmental human-friendliness (EHF) is important in the analysis and improvement of the quality of people's lives. EHF is a complex multi-dimensional and multi-level concept that refers to environments or settings which provide supp...
The aim of the article is to define some criteria of human-friendly environments and to explain why the concept of environmental human-friendliness (EHF) is important in the analysis and improvement of the quality of people´s lives. EHF is a complex multi-dimensional and multi-level concept that refers to environments or settings which provide supp...
Introduction: the context of planning with young people Citizens of the Western industrialized world are increasingly living in informational network societies. Castells (1996) states that the latter are characterized by the spaces of global flows of information, finances, and technology which subjugate localities and places. This means that new ch...
This exploratory study examines howan Internet-assisted design game succeeds in bringing forth children’s own visions for the environment where they live and their definitions of a good environment. Two connected concepts in environmental psychology, the theory of person-environment fit and the concept of affordances, are applied in the analysis of...
Several experiments on children's participation in urban planning in Finland, Norway, Switzerland and Italy have demonstrated that young people are sharp analysts of their settings and creative producers of ideas for planning but the authorities are reluctant to expand their top-down, expert-based mode of urban planning to include new groups, such...
Liisa Horelli describes the politics of place conducted by the Nordic women's movement around the new everyday life and its successor, the EuroFEM gender and human settlement network. It also analyses through the conceptual framework developed by the project a case study on women's resource centres in the rural areas of Finnish North-Karelia....
The aim of the article is to discuss the literature on children's participation and to analyse what planning theorists, educators and child researchers can learn from the comparison of case studies on children's involvement in neighbourhood improvement in Finland, Switzerland and France. The case studies indicate that the creation of child-friendly...
Experiments with children's planning in the European context indicate that, if the participation process is well‐structured, children and young people show striking competence in the analysis of environmental problems as well as in the formulation of new ideas. Many studies of children's participation are confined to a descriptive level. It is argu...
During the past decade, Scandinavian women have been active participants in a movement and have been action researchers in the issues of building and housing on women’s conditions. This chapter describes (1) the history of the movement and its vision of supportive structures for a “New Everyday Life”; (2) the theoretical perspective and practical e...
The Finnish Hospital League launched in the summer of 1981 a project, the purpose of which was to find new methods of developing and improving psychiatric milieus. One of the participants in the experiment was the Kainuu hospital region, a geographical area in Northern Finland, in which outpatient and hospital care including psychiatric services ar...
The idea of self-planning came as a reaction to the extremely patronizing approach to housing planning that was prevalent in Finland in the late 1960s. The scheme itself was developed as a research project which considered involving people in the technology of design, the socio-psychological aspects of environmental appraisal, and the legal-adminis...
The application of community informatics-assisted urban planning and design is still rear in the Finnish context. The aim of the article is to present and discuss the potentials of community informatics for participatory planning and design, as well as for ICT-mediated participation in general. The article is based on a case study on the co-design...
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It is evident that engendering urban planning requires different strategies and methods in different urban planning contexts, such as traditional rational planning (mostly top- down, expert-led), advocacy planning, self-roganisation & co-creation, and co-governance. What are these strategies and methods, as well as the successes and constraints? Examples come from different parts of Europe.
