Tag: Urban development
Vantaa will become a modern and attractive light rail city
For many Vantaa residents, the light rail will mean smoother mobility in everyday life in the future. But that’s not all – an entire light rail city will be built around the light rail.
Discover Kuusijärvi’s new smoke saunas
At the end of August, 2025, two new smoke saunas and a new changing room and washroom for smoke sauna customers will open in Kuusijärvi, Vantaa. One of the smoke saunas and the washroom building are accessible.
Safety factors – “Our youth facility is the railway station where young people are”
Track youth workers move around on trains, in stations and in shopping centres. Their presence creates a sense of security. Watch the video!
The Aroras live a few minutes from the airport - "Vantaa is a home away from home"
The airport and an English school for children. Those are the two big pluses that attracted the Arora family to move to Vantaa.
Planning review
In the annual planning review, we present the current topics related to land use planning.
Urban culture house town planning starts – residentsʼ meeting on 25.10.
The City of Vantaa Cultural Center in Myyrmäki will be built between 2023 and 2031. The project consists of two separate buildings and an event square connecting them.
Käärijä invites people to his mural in Tikkurila: ”Now is a good opportunity to take a selfie with me”
The Käärijä mural in Tikkurila has now been completed. What does Käärijä himself think about his wall painting? Watch the interview on video!
Vantaa regulates the size of apartments in new apartment building projects
From the beginning of 2024, no more than 30% of new apartment blocks may be less than 35 m². The new square-metre regulation aims to curb the high proportion of small apartments in new apartment buildings and to provide sufficient numbers of more spacious family apartments. The effects of the
Vantaa City Council decided: Vantaa to build the light rail
Vantaa City Council decided in its meeting on May 22 on building Vantaa’s first light rail. Building the light rail can begin in the fall of 2024, and traffic is estimated to begin in 2029.
This is how the city is being designed – join in!
What do you want the city you live in to look like? Planning the city is a common thing – Vantaa is growing and developing based on everyone’s ideas.