CITY BUILT INSIDE A PARK
A novel way of building a city (it was written just before the latest invasion) has been adopted by the architects of Helsinki Instead of scattering_ parks here and there inside city limits, the newer portions of Helsinki are rising in areas of woods, dins, streams, bays, and islands that automatically form a vast surrounding park. All along the swiftly spreading outskirts of Finland’s .capital great shops and apartment houses are being built at wide intervals from their neighbours, and are separated by intervening woods that are practically virgin. On the large island of Lauttasaaris, in one of the municipal bays, for instance, one might step out of an ultramodern five or six-story building and within a minute or so become lost to civilisation in the wilderness of a back yard.»
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Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 3
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136CITY BUILT INSIDE A PARK Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 3
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