Cities are not cities without dwellers. An agile city is a community capable of adjusting to temporary and sudden shifts
in external conditions but also to the long-term needs of the dwellers and their diverse ways of living.
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DAC-tutkimusryhmä
The objective of the DAC–project is to recognize future living needs and create novel models for cooperation between varied actors, such as housing companies, immigrants, elderly, remote workers, construction companies, housing estates and state and city officials. Changes in these collaborations are severely needed in Finnish cities for maintaining the economic, ecological and social attractiveness. This project defines the dweller as a key driver of urban development and change. Urban dwellers’ ways to live in and use the city creates pressures for urban planning and the housing markets in cities. DAC-project focuses on this urban mosaic of needs and creates measures for improving social urban development, with particular interest on experiments and innovation, new partnership formations, hybrid housing solutions and flexible ideas about collaboration. From urban design viewpoint, we will create solutions, which respond to several social and cultural needs of citizens and are replicable in other cities.
