HELSINKI-INFO is an information bulletin published by the City of Helsinki on the Internet and in print six times a year.
Helsinki-info publishes the English Supplement on the net, viewable in
• flash
• pdf file (840 Kb).
Furthermore, a facsimile version of the printed bulletin is viewable on these web pages as
• flash
• pdf (9 Mb).
Information on the City’s actualities is available at the City of Helsinki link beside.
The next Helsinki-info and the English Supplement will be published on 13.2.2012
on the Internet and the printed version will be distributed to Helsinki households on week 7/2012.
Double celebrations
Helsinki is soon celebrating its 200 year-jubilee as the capital – and as the World Design Capital 2012. The year-long programme will comprise dozens of items, both large and small, informative and artistic, ranging from a downtown parade to exhibitions in suburban public libraries.
After Helsinki became capital in 1812, the capital status would mean migration to Helsinki. Historian Martti Helminen describes the role of foreign-born people in Helsinki in the past.
“The first musicians of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra came from Germany. Household names in Helsinki including Stockmann and Sinebrychoff remind us how Helsinki has been built by foreigners; now these names are synonymous to the iconic department store and a famous beer brand.”
Further information: pages 7–14 and
http://wdchelsinki2012.fi/en
http://www.helsinki200.fi (later in English).
“Ideally a city should tell a
story,” says Tuomas
Rajajärvi, Director of the
Helsinki City Planning Department.
He describes how
Helsinki seeks to
define its place in
Europe: “We can’t
compete with bulk,
like places such as
Manhattan can do. Our story
must stem from being an attractive,
pleasant city marked by
closeness to nature and human
scale."