Upcoming Paper Presentation (FREE) by possible UC Berkeley's Finnish Studies Finalist. by University of Helsinki's Lieven Ameel on "Literary Perspective on Urban Development: The Fnnish Urban Novel & The Rhetoric of Helsinki's Waterfront Rgeneration"

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    The Department of Scandinavian is pleased to present:  

  Lieven Ameel, University of Helsinki

Literary Perspectives on Urban Development:

  The Finnish Urban Novel  & The Rhetoric of Helsinki's Waterfront Regeneration  
Thursday,  Feb. 20, 2014 at 5:00 PM  219 Dwinelle Hall Reception to follow in Dwinelle 6321    

This lecture examines the potential of literary narratives for evaluating practices in urban planning and development. It will look at two specific cases of waterfront development in the context of the Finnish capital’s long shoreline: the plans for a Guggenheim museum in the Helsinki South Harbor, and the development of the former container harbor Jätkäsaari. An examination of the rich urban imaginaries in Finnish turn-of-the-twentieth-century literature will be juxtaposed with the generic rhetoric that was used, in particular, in the controversial plans for a Helsinki Guggenheim. I conclude by arguing that the shortcomings of these ambitious development projects could have been remedied by rigorous cultural and narrative mapping of the locations in question.

 

 
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Read more about Ameel's musings in Helsinki On My Mind (2007)