Joensuu tranformations

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Joensuu tranformations
General planning architect Mika Ahonen 14.10.2008
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City transformations
pedestrian center
60 000
hypermarkets
regionalisation
private cars
40 000
urbanisation
refugee settlement
20 000
wars
founding 1848
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2000
1860
1900
1940
1980
2020
1880
1920
1960
Transformation of commerce
Transformation of habitation
Wooden Joensuu
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Joensuu in 1948fully developed wooden townin
rectangular shape
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Transformation of the city structure
1960s
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Transformation of the townscape
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Transformation of the townscape
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Transformation of the regional structure
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Transformation of commerce since 1980s
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Transformation of the commercial center

• Before year 2010 the commercial center will be
  completed
• pedestrian zone
• bus traffic street
• car traffic circle around the center (incl. a
  new bridge)
• new parking arrangements
• partially built blocks will be
  complemented
• gt End point of the
  development started in 1960s?

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Pedestrian area
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Central blocks
Development 2000-2010 Commencedor
completed Commencing before 2010 future
development?
?
Iso Myy
Sokos
Carlson
About 54 000 sqm Value well over 100 M
Citymarket
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What is to come?

• City center will be a construction site until the
  end of the decade.
• After that?
• Unsolved issues
• underground parking in the market place?
• market place renewal?
• market hall renewal?
• central park renewal?
• Ilosaari island renewal?
• use of ground-level car
• parking areas in the
• futere?
• need for more space for
• commerce in the
• centre/ generally in the
• region?

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Public/ Commercial space?

• In the 80s and 90s
• city centers were
• benchmark for malls and
• hypermarkets
• shops grouped around
• indoor streets
• imitation of public street
• space
• Now city centers adopt features of shopping
  centers
• easy and efficient access
• and parking for cars,
• e.g. city ring idea of
• circulation and parking
• facilities
• shops open to indoor
• streets, no entrances from
• the street
• dead windows to the streets

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Public/ Commercial space?
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Parking in the center

• Scattered parking facilities closeto the traffic
  circle
• weight on the north side
• distances
• Pedestrian zone induced changes (until 2010)
• loss of parking places on streets and on
  parking lots (-526)
• new parking places in parking facilities
  (788)
• THE CITY PLAN REVISION INCLUDING
• THE MARKET PLACE CAR PARK
• accepeted by city council
• compalaints to be solved in the
• administrational court

?
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Market place underground car park scheme
Siltakatu
Vapauden- puisto
Kävelykatu
Koskikatu
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New housing in the centre

• living space per capita rises
• (19 by year 2020?)
• to preserve commercial and
• municipal services,
• more housing space is needed
• search for build-in lots and
• how to build-in

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New housing near the centre

• Penttilä sawmill area
• industrial function stopped in 1988
• problem with polluted soil
• architectural competition 2003
• environmental permit in 2006
• for cleaning
• opposite the city centre
• (cross the river Pielisjoki)
• First partial area (Aittaranta)
• commenced in 2005