Visionary, Participatory Planning and Integrated Management for Resilient Cities

As the main result project results in 5 integrated urban management plans dealing with resilience through re-activation and re-envisioning areas and neighborhoods, one in each partner city. Local stakeholders relevant for each plan are closely included in realising these. By using these local processes as test labs; by sharing notes and findings with peers from other partner cities in three the Planners Forums; and by including coaching from a multidisciplinary Advisory Board, the planning process itself is also observed and developed from the perspectives of creating better opportunities for stakeholder participation and quality interaction. Result indicator: 5 integrated urban plans developed, one in each partner city.
Project will have wider input to BSR policy level, by close cooperation with VASAB and CSPD/BSR,
making the region a front-runner in novel urban development strategies, fostering:
1) Definitions of sustainability and resilience, challenges and possible solutions in the BSR.
2) Parallel implementation scenarios of plans.
3) Policy recommendations based on developed matrix of indicators to be shared on local, interregional and macro-regional levels (presented in Urban planners network and to VASAB).
4) Expertise exchange both on local and interregional level, contribution to implementation from new stakeholders.
5) Working methods for utilising MR technologies in the integrated urban management and recommendations in which cases and state of the planning process they’d be best utilised.
6) MR visualisations of the case areas, and the possibility to modify them (new in the world of novel technologies, and to planning processes).
7) MR scenarios of the cities in the future, aimed to guide planning and decision-making.
8) Communications of insights gained, interactive exhibitions, video reports, articles, scientific articles.

Local Actions, total city land area
Helsinki 214.21 km2;
Tallinn 159.2 km2;
Gävle 42.45 km2;
Cēsis 19.28 km2;
Viimsi 72.84 km