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PlanCity - LEAN processes in land use to enable innovations for real estate development

Tampere University
Area of focusSociety, Technology

We develop a new land use planning system that is based on co-creation of value and network leading. The subject is very topical, when the land use and building law is being renewed in Finland.

PlanCity-final seminar

Around fifty zoning and land use professionals arrived at Paidia-Arena. Thank you to all participants and project partners!

Blog: Do you utilize your data - or does it collect dust in the archive?

Blog: The new school of land use planning

Blog: The project, the best partner of the station zone planner

Zoning: a societal driver of change

"Now we only need the courage to change our modes of operation, which no longer fit the needs of the modern world well enough", stated Panu Lehtovuori and Ari Ahonen on Maaseudun tulevaisuus in spring 2020.

Asuntosäätiö in PlanCity: the goal is to add agility to city planning

The development of land use processes would speed up building apartment and preparing areas. It would also affect the price of housing. Asuntosäätiö takes part in Tampere university project PlanCity, where the goal is to intensify Finnish land use planning process.

The goal of PlanCity is to intensify land use planning process

The Tampere university PlanCity research project wants to revolutionize Finnish land use planning process. According to PlanCity land use planning's focus should be moved into the future and its actions should be more agile.

Main article 21.3.2021: Zoning is the break and gas of city planning

Kuopio should learn from the Tampere university research project PlanCity. It brings land use planning philosophy into a thought where complicated systems need simple rules. Zoning should be predictable, which makes it credible - and fluent.