Verkkokeskustelut kommunikatiivista suunnittelua edistämässä: Lisää kaupunkia Helsinkiin -Facebook-ryhmä kaupunkisuunnittelun kumppanina?

Authors

• Annaliina Niitamo Helsingin yliopisto
• Jonas Sjöblom Tampereen yliopisto

Keywords:

Communicative urban planning, social media, collaboration, Facebook, More City to Helsinki

Abstract

Social media and online discussions have become reality for urban planners in the
21st century. This article explores how urban planners in Helsinki see social media as
a part of their work. The case study is on urban planners’ views of the City Planning
Department of Helsinki on a particularly active Facebook group called “More City
to Helsinki” (Lisää kaupunkia Helsinkiin). We ask how urban planners view More
City to Helsinki Facebook group as a part of citizen participation in urban planning
and whether there can be collaboration between official urban planning and this
organised urban activism. As an underlying theoretical theme, we examine how
More City to Helsinki sits in the communicative turn of urban planning. We claim
that current conventions of communicative planning do not take into account the
changing logic of social media.