Campus square, Aalto University. Source: author's own.

Greetings from sunny Finland, the host country of this year's World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC). As a warm-up to the congress and its host country, in this post I'll provide an overview of current debates in Finnish planning. In Finland, we have a three-tier planning system: national, regional, and local. In this hierarchy, municipalities...

Collaborative housing (CH) is a commonly used umbrella term for all housing projects with at least some degree of collaboration between residents. Collaboration may refer to common ownership, building and design, activities, shared spaces, and more. Every project is unique. Some have individual apartments but lots of common space on-site, such as c...