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In our last urban expedition to Helsinki, La Fabrique de la Cité, an urban planning think tank, partnered up with Leonard, VINCI’s innovation branch, to visit Helsinki and to learn more about their wooden construction and underground develo[...]
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Etienne Achille’s perspective – Helsinki

An important point to understand Helsinki is that the capital of Finland is truly an archipelago. With as many as 330 different islands within the cities limits, this intensely complex cities’ origins, identity and recent developments were e[...]
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Lisbon beyond the Tagus

Land parsimony practices, comparative trends and outlook

Urban natures : history and topicality of a political and technological issue

Helsinki : Planning innovation and urban resilience

Etienne Achille’s perspective – Helsinki

Planning makes a comeback

The fight against climate change begins in the soil