DOI: 10.19830/j.upi.2020.497
Infill Development in Old Community Reconstruction Projects in Finland and Its Implications

Zhou Jiale, Ding Rui, Zhang Xiaoping, Huang Baohua

Keywords: Infill Development; Old Community Reconstruction (OCR); Low-efficiency Land Use; Housing Comapny; Finland; Benefit Sharing

Abstract:

The redevelopment and reconstruction of old community at home and abroad are generally faced with such problems as complex property rights relations, difficult collective decision-making of multiple subjects, high renovation costs and insufficient social capital incentives, which require countries to constantly explore and innovate renovation models and paths suitable for their own urban characteristics in practice. This paper takes Finland unique joint-stock “housing company” infill development mode of old community as the research object, from the development present situation, the related policy, the implementation mode, profitability, effective and barrier system is introduced and analyzed in five aspects, and enlightenment from Finland experience summed up three aspects: first, the benefit sharing mechanism should be rationally designed so that investors and communities can form a community of interests and share the transformation dividends in the long term; second, attach importance to the community building in the reconstruction process, and ensure the balance of multiple appeals and interests by means of full public participation; third, give play to the government’s service function to provide organizational guidance, system construction and incentive mechanism guarantee for the old communities reconstruction project.


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