Kangasalan Vatialan kehitys kulttuuriympäristön ehdoilla

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

The Tampere regional centre programme has been completed. The Tampere regional centre includes the city of Tampere, towns of Nokia, Orivesi and Ylöjärvi and the municipalities of Kangasala, Lempäälä, Pirkkala and Vesilahti. The main purpose to prepare the programme was to optimize the regional decision-making and to solve where the future inhabitants of the growing region should be situated. The increase of habitants is estimated to be approximately 90 000 during the next 20 years. The newly announced programme adjudges that the prospective growth of population within Tampere region will be placed by compressing the existing conurbation and building its neighbouring areas by supporting public transport systems. It means that the growth will change the urban structure and cultural landscape of the existing conurbation. In the beginning, the programme had high expectations of uplifting the cultural heritage as a regional attractive force. But somehow the ready-made programme leaves all contemplation concerning the cultural heritage for the future extension plans. To improve the regional attraction and to preserve the cultural landscapes there is also a need for a regional culture programme.\n\tAt the moment Kangasala municipality has about 28 000 inhabitants. The approximated growth of is 11 000 by the year 2030. Vatiala, which is a piece of Kangasala’s banded conurbation, will be housing 2000 of the forthcoming inhabitants. The main purpose of my thesis is to find the most valuable parts of Vatiala and to solve how the development could happen without ruining the existing urbanity and agricultural heritage. The idea is not to maintain and preserve the landscape as a museum, but to re-evaluate the regional programme’s compress ambitions and to resolve how to enable the growth by not only saving the cultural heritage but also lifting it as an attractive force.\n\tI have divided Vatiala into zones that differ from each other by their landscape, building means and building points in time. Thinking in zones intends to help the future planning to see the separate characteristics of the arias and to develop every zone by sustaining its own values. I have also made rough plans where to situate the supplemental housing and how to get more out of the existing cultural heritage. In my high expectations the thesis will help the contemporary and future citizens of Vatiala, the planners and the policymakers of Kangasala municipality to see and to understand the stories that are hidden in the landscape, to see the beauty of the multi-layered conurbation and to appreciate it. \n\tThe colonization history of Vatiala is checkered. It is a mixture of old and new, agrarian and urban. There are still left pieces of middle-age villages, after-war reconstruction areas, military areas, element-building areas from the 1970’s and brand new modern houses. The nature especially in the southern parts of the conurbation is amazing with its waterfront and gulch lakes. During the 1970’s many parts of the old village was consumed under the fast built new housing areas. Also the village’s social rendezvous, Tallimäki, has been treated under new paths. Before designing the future Vatiala we must learn from the predecessors’ mistakes. Vatiala is a mixture of agrarian and urban. That mixture spiced up with the stunning nature is Vatiala’s most important attractive force.