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NORDICUM 1/2012

Nordicum Real Estate 1/2012
Helsinki is a forerunner in service design, says real estate design guru John Worthington (cover), who is as excited about WDC2012 as we are. In this issue, Worthington talks about the evolution of cityscape, anatomy of places and typography of high-rise construction. Furthermore, we showcase the most interesting real estate projects around the country and dig deep for the trends and visions of the future. read now

Nordicum - Scandinavian Business Magazine is a bimonthly periodical magazine on business, economies and politics in Northern Europe. NORDICUM has been published since 1993 providing its readers with analyses of the driving forces behind the Baltic Sea market area. Each edition of NORDICUM includes an in-depth look at a particular industry or area.

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Helsinki Is Growing Inwards

The Agenda This year, Helsinki celebrates her 200 years as the capital of Finland and is proudly carrying the title of World Design Capital 2012. Cities’ development is no longer guaranteed by administrative decisions but their success is dictated by their ability to attract people of t... Read more

More columns from Hannu Penttilä

The Mad Hatters

One of the biggest casualties of the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima is common sense. There is no limit to the hysteria the nuclear accident has caused in the Western world, particularly in Germany. False information, political manipulation and hasty conclusions seem to be the order of... Read more

More columns from Paavo Lipponen

The Rise and Fall of the G20

G20 Finance ministers met in Paris in February. They did not accomplish much. This was not surprising. The G20 is no longer a steering group for the world economy. It has become a debating chamber for two camps with competing economic ideologies. One camp consists of the BRIC-plus countri... Read more

More columns from Risto E. J. Penttilä

Soft Power against Gas Power

“Gazprom has got a lot further than the Red Army ever did,” whispers one of the international wiseacres. “The USSR,” opines another senior member of the commentariat, “was a lot easier to deal with than Russia is today”. It’s true that Russia was... Read more

More columns from Lasse Lehtinen

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NORDICUM RUSSIA 1/2012

NORDICUM RUSSIA анализирует плоды горячей политической весны - и в связи с этим на обложке председатель выигравшей выборы Коалиционной партии Юрки Катайнен. Стиль ведения переговоров Катайнена и других финских руководителей освещается в статье, которая рассматривает, в частности, различия бизнес-культур в Финляндии и в Россиии. Другие темы номера: энергоэффективное строительство, Чемпионат мира по футболу-2018 в России и находящиеся на крутом подъеме финские города Турку (Культурная столица Европы 2011) и Хельсинки (Столица мирового дизайна 2012). Читать сейчас

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Vertically Challenged

High-rise construction is very much the talk of the town in Helsinki. With as many as 50 high-rise projects in the pipeline, the City authorities have worked hard to create some sort of ground rules for the industry players – a roadmap of sorts, showing all the hurdles one has to clear f... Read more

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