Environmental history of Helsinki

Helsinki is a pre-industrial wooden town. Undemocratic division into estates rules the everyday life. The wealthy people and craftsmen reside in the town and most of the peasants, fishermen and poor live in huts beyond the town limits. Helsinki has become an industrial center. People move and reside near the newly built factories. The working class lives near factories areas in tenement houses and the wealthy people live in new high apartment buildings in the centre.
Helsinki expands and grows due to incorporation of new districts and immigration. It becomes a networked city, which makes the everyday life easy. Consequently the emissions to air, water and soil increase. Post-war austerity dominates the economic life. Helsinki forms with neighboring cities a metropolitan area of one million people. Local environmental problems have diminished while international problems, such as eutrophication of the Baltic Sea have become actual.

Thanks to the Helsinki City Museum giving the permission to use its collection
of photos and paintings of historic Helsinki for this presentation.

Helsingin ympäristöhistorian suomenkielinen sivusto

Helsinki is a pre-industrial wooden town. Undemocratic division into estates rules the everyday life. The wealthy people and craftsmen reside in the town and most of the peasants, fishermen and poor live in huts beyond the town limits.		Helsinki has become an industrial center. People move and reside near the newly built factories. The working class lives near factories areas in tenement houses and the wealthy people live in new high apartment buildings in the centre.
Helsinki expands and grows due to incorporation of new districts and immigration. It becomes a networked city, which makes the everyday life easy. Consequently the emissions to air, water and soil increase. Post-war austerity dominates the economic life.		Helsinki forms with neighboring cities a metropolitan area of one million people. Local environmental problems have diminished while international problems, such as eutrophication of the Baltic Sea have become actual.