Urban planning Tapiola brought worldwide fame for Finnish urban planning. From its first stages it gained both a national and international reputation for its high class architecture and landscaping, as well as an ideological experiment. Tapiola's planners aimed at demonstrating a new direction for Finnish town planning and housing. The aim of the Housing Foundation was to create a garden city which would be a microcosm of Finnish society: all social classes would live there and there would be different types of buildings, ranging from detached houses to terraced and multi-storey blocks. The slogan of the project was: "we do not want to build houses or dwellings but socially healthful surroundings for contemporary man and his family". Tapiola provided a utopian vision of society and an alternative to what was seen at the time as an oppressive urban environment. In this sense, Tapiola was both an experiment and a model.
urban planning tapiola brought worldwide fame for finnish urban planning from its first stages it gained both a national and international reputation for its high class architecture and landscaping as well as an ideological experiment tapiola's planners aimed at demonstrating a new direction for finnish town planning and housing the aim of the housing foundation was to create a garden city which would be a microcosm of finnish society all social classes would live there and there would be different types of buildings ranging from detached houses to terraced and multi-storey blocks the slogan of the project was "we do not want to build houses or dwellings but socially healthful surroundings for contemporary man and his family" tapiola provided a utopian vision of society and an alternative to what was seen at the time as an oppressive urban environment in this sense tapiola was both an experiment and a model