Sampo Ruoppila

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at University of Helsinki

Campus carry, which allows individuals possessing a license (or, more recently, a right) to carry concealed firearms to legally bring them onto public university campuses, was implemented in Texas in 2016, but it has remained a contested issue at The University of Texas at Austin. Based on a survey of undergraduates ( N = 1,204) conducted in spring...

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan, miten lähiöitä on lähestytty suomalaisessa kaupunki-ja erityisesti lähiötutkimuksessa, aineistona lähiötemaattiset väitöskirjat vuoteen 2022 asti. Katsaus osoittaa, että historiallisissa ja rakennetun ympäristön tutkimuksissa lähiöitä on käsitelty oman aikansa tuotteina, huomioiden rakenteellisten tekijöiden vaikut...

There are growing calls for Higher Education Institutions to become more civically engaged and socially revelvant in their local regions. The central aim of the Communities and Students Together (CaST) project has been to advance our knowledge and understanding of the myriad forms of Engaged Learning and to develop a deeper understanding of engagem...

At the heart of the universities "third mission" is the idea that their expertise can be used in collaboration with various stakeholders to solve societal problems. This chapter discusses how Engaged Learning applies that idea to university teaching. It is a university driven learning exercise with strong community involvement, where activities of...

Campus carry laws have allowed civilians to legally bring their concealed firearms onto college and university campuses in several states in the U.S. over the past decade. Previous studies have addressed the policy’s legal grounds, arguments for and against it, impacts on campus safety, and faculty and students’ attitudes toward it. This paper exam...

The CaST project, supported by the EU’s ERAMUS+ Programme, includes partners in six European countries: Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The views expressed are purely the authors’ own and do not reflect the views of the European Commission. Engaged Learning enables students to apply theory to a context outside of the...

Engaged Learning enables students to apply theory to a context outside of the University by addressing societal concerns, challenges or needs, while producing knowledge in an equitable, mutually beneficial partnership. Through participating in Engaged Learning, students develop self-efficacy and enhance their employability, while local communities...

The science-society relations of social sciences and humanities have been increasingly discussed under the concept of productive interactions, which refers to the mutual learning processes between researchers and stakeholders for the benefit of societal development. While most studies have analysed the societal impact from the research performers'...

Koronapandemia on vauhdittanut kaupunkien vapaa-ajan palveluiden digitalisoitumista. Digipalveluiden käyttö ja kiinnostus niitä kohtaan ovat lisääntyneet, mutta digimuoto on myös karsinut käyttäjiä. Kaupunkilaiset odottavat innokkaasti kirjastojen, konserttien, teattereiden ja liikuntapaikkojen avautumista. He myös aikovat palata niiden käyttäjiksi...

The case study from the University of Turku is an initiative called “Localized learning of urban planning and policy in the Baltic Sea Region”. This initiative was a series of three courses, organised jointly by University of Turku (urban studies minor), Estonian University of Life Sciences (master’s programme of landscape architecture), and Univer...

The case study from the University of Turku is an initiative called “Localized learning of urban planning and policy in the Baltic Sea Region”. This initiative was a series of three courses, organised jointly by University of Turku (urban studies minor), Estonian University of Life Sciences (master’s programme of landscape architecture), and Univer...

As a publicly funded institution,The University of Texas at Austin had to implement the state's legislation to allow concealed handguns on campus. Yet its own Campus Carry policy has sought to erase the matter from everyday campus life. The administration deems it a “nonissue,” presuming that students have become accustomed to the idea, do not thin...

In this state of the art review, we explore the concept of Engaged Learning, and the development of this pedagogy globally, with a specific focus on each of the CaST Partner Countries of Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. We define Engaged Learning as the process where students apply the theory learned at Higher Educati...

Asukas- ja käyttäjälähtöinen suunnittelu vaatii tuekseen laajempaa ymmärrystä asumisen arjesta. Artikkelissa vastataan haasteeseen tarkastelemalla asukkaiden näkemyksiä asumisen koetuista laatutekijöistä. Tarkastelu perustuu tarjoumateoriaan, jota sovellettiin osallistavaa valokuvamenetelmää hyödyntävien fokusryhmähaastattelujen analyysissa. Tuloks...

The article analyses how housing affordability is defined in Finnish housing policy. The data consists of laws, policy documents and expert interviews. Three theoretical approaches are identified: normative definitions, consumer choice and definition by housing tenure. Normative definitions that consider affordability as an intersection of househol...

In this state of the art review, we explore the concept of Engaged Learning, and the development of this pedagogy globally, with a specific focus on each of the CaST Partner Countries of Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. We define Engaged Learning as the process where students apply the theory learned at Higher Educati...

Tässä kirjoituksessa tarkastelemme tarvetta ja mahdollisuutta laajentaa yhteiseen hyvään kuuluvien tilojen kirjoa kaupungeissa mikrotasolla, fokuksena asukkaiden, käyttäjien tai muiden ruohonjuuritoimijoiden omalla toiminnallaan synnyttämät tilat. Tarkastelemme kysymystä etenkin tilapäisten käyttöjen näkökulmasta, mutta saman pohdinnan voi laajenta...

The need for more dweller-oriented approaches to the development of residential environments is widely agreed upon. In the theoretical discussion, the concept of affordances has been seen as promising in grasping the desirable dwelling features and how they become meaningful in everyday uses. However, the concept has been used surprisingly little i...

Finland and Estonia had unusually close connections for a Western and a Soviet state following the Khrushchëv Thaw. This chapter addresses the question of how Finnish architecture and planning influenced the development of multifamily housing, including large housing estates, in Soviet Estonia. The chapter shows how information on architecture and...

Recent debates regarding urban policy mobilities have shed light on the transfer and adaptation of similar sets of measures and projects. However, limited attention has been given to the local decision-making processes and to how democratic or autocratic modes of governance affect the adaptation. This paper focuses on the transnational spreading of...

Web-based citizen feedback systems have become commonplace in cities around the world, resulting in vast amounts of data. Recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing enable novel and practical ways of analysing it as big data. This paper reports an explorative case study of sentiment analysis of citizen feedback (in Finnish)...

There has been a tendency to portray municipalities as prone recipients of transnational growth-oriented development initiatives. The processes of transferring transnational urban development models are increasingly depicted as progressively de-politicized, with an emphasis on ‘strategic projects’ over long-term general planning. This study investi...

Following the radical expansion of higher education admission in China in the late 1990s, more than 60 new ‘university towns’, districts of several adjacent university campuses, were built in the country's urban agglom- erations by 2006. Previous studies have considered university towns primarily as an example of Chinese local entrepreneurialism, n...

Living labs as a research approach have been said to hold many promises regarding the evaluation of state-of-the art technologies in real-world contexts, for instance by allowing close cooperation with various stakeholders. At the same time, a living lab approach is connected with substantial complexity and increased risk. This paper elaborates on...

In this chapter, we outline a theoretical plane, discussing urban space as a tensioned and dynamic field of interlinked, simultaneous differences. The notion of ‘difference’ – phrased by different authors as multiplicity, variety, alterity, otherness or heterotopia – is central to our conceptual approach. The contemporary debate views temporary use...

The proposed workshop aims to develop the concept of Pervasive Participation further by reviewing current forms of advanced e-participation that utilize latest pervasive technologies such as feature-rich smartphones and technically enriched appliances embedded in urban environments and brainstorming ideas for effectively leveraging of in-situ parti...

This paper reports results on presumably the first city-wide mobile participation trial (Living Lab) examining citizen participation in urban planning, conducted in Turku, Finland, in 2015. The questions examined are the socio-economic characteristics of the application users, as well as their motivations to participate. The inclusion of online par...

This paper discusses potentials and challenges of living lab approach in studying pervasive mobile participation, including reporting experiences of a living lab experiment currently conducted in Turku, Finland. It shows that the living lab approach offers both new opportunities and challenges when implemented in the urban governance context. In ge...

The proposed workshop envisions the idea of Pervasive Participation, forms of advanced citizen e-participation based on the pervasive computing paradigm utilizing latest mobile technology such as feature-rich smartphones and appliances embedded in today's technically enriched urban surroundings. Opportunities reach from using today's sensing, commu...

This paper reports results of a research project on 15 independent cultural centres around Europe. These specific sites, promoting culture and arts and related industries, have often acted as ”urban pioneers” in their neighbourhoods, converting spaces considered ”difficult” in size or because they are listed properties. The centres involve combinat...

Mobile participation has been studied, so far, mostly from the perspective of emphasising human interaction with technology. The research question of our paper is, instead, how to support the ‘participation’ in mobile participation. We tackle this question by reviewing literature on inclusive participation and motivation in general, and discussing...

A proposal to establish a new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki has caused a vivid debate, and raised a question whether Helsinki could make a better attraction on its own.

Contemporary economic, social and cultural trends support interest in temporary uses of properties and urban space. Temporary uses have an experimental character in development and have agreed to have many societal and commercial benefits, including place-making and support of collaborative practices. This article provides a typology of temporary u...

The article examines the development of the urban planning system in Tallinn from 1991, when Estonia re-established its independence from the Soviet Union, until 2004. The planning laws and planning documents are analysed from the point of view of what kind of tools they provide for the public authority to intervene in urban development. It is argu...

Kaupunkiraportti Tiranasta 2006

This paper analyses the role and effects of housing policies on residential differentiation in the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The focus is on contemporary 'post-privatization' housing-policy measures and their effects, although the transformation from socialism to a market economy during the 1990s is also covered. A distinct contrast...

This paper reviews the literature on the processes of residential differentiation in Budapest, Prague, Tallinn and Warsaw during the era of state socialism. It identifies the housing types that were part of the housing provision regime at different periods of the socialist era, and discusses the inequalities in access to them, examining how they af...

It is widely agreed that residentialdifferentiation has increased in Central andEastern European cities since the collapse ofcommunism. This article analyses the pattern ofsocio-economic residential differentiation inTallinn, the capital of Estonia, and shows thatby 1999 Tallinn's eight city districts had notyet been divided into rich or poor areas...

Lyhyessä ajassa, noin 1980- ja 1990-luvuilla, harmaasta ja vahvasti säädellystä Helsingistä tuli värikäs ja salliva. Kaupunkikulttuurin elävöityminen kiteytyi ravintoloissa tapahtuneisiin muutoksiin. 1980-luku oli ruohonjuuritason läpimurtojen aikaa, 1990-luvulla edellisen vuosikymmenen ilmiöt kypsyivät ja laajenivat. Uusien käytäntöjen omaksuminen...

The thesis examines urban issues arising from the transformation from state socialism to a market economy. The main topics are residential differentiation, i.e., uneven spatial distribution of social groups across urban residential areas, and the effects of housing policy and town planning on urban development. The case study is development in Tall...