Browsing by Author "Antola, Mikael"

The purpose of this study is to clarify what land use management mechanisms is used in municipalities to support wooden multistorey building and what is the impact of the land use management mechanisms in it. Finally, the objective is to conclude what explain the differences in used land use management mechanisms in municipalities to support wooden multistorey construction and the impact of the land use management mechanisms. The materials in this study were gathered in municipal websites and half structured theme interviews in two case municipalities. The results show that the two case municipalities use very different land use management mechanisms and the achieved results of supporting wooden multistorey buildings differ greatly. Great results have been gotten with formal land use management mechanisms such as zoning, but zoning only for wooden multistorey buildings contain also risks. Using only informal land use planning, such as incentives have gotten poor results, but together side by side formal and informal planning seem to achieve the best results. To conclude, the usage of what different land use management mechanisms municipalities should be using is dependent on background factors such as housing demand and attractiveness of residence milieu which reduces the risks of wooden multistorey construction, resulting that stronger support towards wooden multistorey construction can be used. In addition, better strategy, and implementation of the strategy in supporting wooden multistorey construction with land use management leads to a better result, but on the other hand the risks in wooden multistorey construction can explain the lack of success in wooden multistorey buildings and furtherly explain poor city strategy and leadership towards wooden multistorey construction.