• Low-carbon cities
  • Smart cities
  • pilots for sustainable urban development

Sustainable station areas: Climate-smart area tool

Ilmastoviisas alue -kortit juna-asemamaiseman päällä. Kuva: Jenni-Justiina Niemi, HSY

The experiment produced a tool for planning climate-start station areas to assist urban planning The tool is based on the Low Carbon District concept developed in the EU-funded SMART-MR project. The concept consists of four areas: Land use, housing, mobility, and services and livelihoods.

Results

  • The project created a user-friendly tool that comprehensively examines sustainability themes for urban planners and regional development actors.

  • The ready tool at www.ilmastoviisasalue.fi can be used in regional planning. 

  • The experiment produced information on how proposals for regional planning measures can be visualised and compiled into a service package.

Effects

  • The tool will make it possible for low-carbon and circular economy urban planning to be more streamlined.
  • Workshop cards facilitate interactive planning of sustainable areas and the definition of objectives

In collaboration with

  • Helsinki Region Environmental Services HSY
  • Ministry of the Environment

Photo: Jenni-Justiina Niemi, HSY 

See also

Accelerating Sustainable Development - Agenda 2030 Handbook for Municipalities

A handbook was compiled on sustainability management in municipalities. The handbook supports the interpretation and utilisation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in cross-sectoral sustainable development at the local level. 

Work on challenge bundles

The aim of the project is to identify and solve joint sustainability challenges of cities, towns and municipalities. The challenge bundles were ‘inclusion and sense of community’, ‘green areas nearby and health’, ‘station districts’, and ‘circular economy and joint use’.