“The innovative town concept of the future” design competition – a new town for 20.000 inhabitants in Finland
In the past more cities has meant less landscape and less nature. Growing cities have been grinding the ecosystems, eroding the landscape and spreading in the form of generic suburbs.
The Urban Reef proposes to revert this process into a new urban form where more city means more nature, and more cities means stronger ecosystems. A city where the guilt of consuming the landscape is replaced by the enjoyment of producing and consolidating the natural environment.
In the past more cities has meant less landscape and less nature. Growing cities have been grinding the ecosystems, eroding the landscape and spreading in the form of generic suburbs. The Urban Reef proposes to revert this process into a new urban form where more city means more nature, and more cities means stronger ecosystems. A city where the guilt of consuming the landscape is replaced by the enjoyment of producing and consolidating the natural environment.
