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Urban Sustainability: Historical Perspectives

Tampere University
LocationPinni B building, lecture hall 1096
Date2.11.2023 10.00–14.15
Registration deadline: 26.10.2023,20.00
LanguageEnglish
Entrance feeFree of charge
Kestävä kaupunkikehitys
Urban sustainability has become one of the key research areas in urban history internationally. The workshop, focusing on environmental, material, cultural and social aspects of sustainability, reflects on the plans, ideals and practices of the past, and the ways in which they lie behind present decisions concerning how to make cities more sustainable.

Place: Pinni B1096. 

12.00–12:20 Opening – Tanja Vahtikari, Degree Programme in History

 

Faculty’s greetings – Dean Juho Saari, SOC

 

12.20–12:40 Liisa Häikiö (Tampere University): Urban sustainability: From marginal to mainstream?

 

12:40–13:10 Helen Sooväli-Sepping (Tallinn University): Rethinking the past, confronting the future. The city at the turn of millennium

 

13.10–13:40 Mikkel Thelle (National Museum of Denmark): Membranes of sustainability. Danish green practices on the urban fringe

 

13.40–14:00 Anna Lyyra-Seppänen (Pirkanmaa Regional Museum): Cultural sustainability in heritage planning

 

14.00–14:30 Coffee

 

14:30–15:00 Peter Clark (University of Helsinki): Urban vacant land as a resource for urban sustainability?

 

15:00–15:20 Henrik Mattjus (Tampere University): Understanding sustainability as a historical socio-material concept. Two interpretations of built environment in the interwar context

 

15.20–15:40 Matti Hannikainen (University of Helsinki): Growing up into a City – urban planning and politics in Vantaa, 1972–2022

 

15:40–16:00 Katariina Mustakallio (Tampere University): Rome and its neighborhoods - inside and outside

 

16:00–16:15 Congratulations to Marjaana Niemi

 

Due to the refreshments, we kindly ask you to register by the 26th of October. 

 

Organiser

The event is organized by the Degree Programme in History at Tampere University (https://www.tuni.fi/en/about-us/history) in cooperation with the Finnish Society for Urban Studies (https://uusi.kaupunkitutkimuksenseura.fi/mainpage/). The activity is sponsored by STUE – Sustainable Transformation of Urban Environments action grant (https://projects.tuni.fi/stue/). STUE is a research community and profiling area in Tampere University.

Further information

henrik.mattjus@tuni.fi