Front page News News Charming Urban Policy Charming Urban Policy 21.8.2014 The grand old man of urban policy Eero Holstila and young gun Timo Hämäläinen further boost MDI’s urban development wing. Eero is well known for his central role when the first wave of urban policy came ashore in Finland in mid-1990s. Since then, Eero has run Culminatum Ltd and made Helsinki funnier and more competitive as the Business Director of City of Helsinki. Lately he has focused on the vitality of municipalities. Eero knows European research and development networks through and through. Timo is a planning geographer having an influence nationally and also internationally in the forefront of urbanism. He knows cities, their most wicked problems, and also means to solve them. He has burst onto the urban scene as an analytic thinker with his blog From Rurban to Urban (urbanfinland.com) sparring Finnish cities and city developers. Timo is also the co-founder of Urban Helsinki, a collective designing fringe plans. Timo has gathered schooling, experiences, and know-how from different continents. His past includes consultation, centre of expertise programme, and UN, future MDI. Co-founders and partners Jarl Matti Anttila, Anssi Uitto, and Jukka Vesalainen continue in MDI’s advisor team, alongside with Tero Vuorinen and Jesse Heimonen. MDI’s thesis on urban policy are published in Piparkakkutalo in Hämeenlinna on 23 September 2014 at 5 pm. Share to Share to: facebook Share to: linkedin Share to: twitter
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