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Letter: The importance of being earnest about urban parks (2)

Published 21 August 2019

From Anders Jansson, Helsinki, Finland

Lawton praises London as the world's first National Park City. In Finland, we have nine National Urban Parks, created under the Land Use and Building Act of 1999. At present, Helsinki is in the long and tedious process of trying to decide whether to join places such as Turku, Forssa and Kuopio.

Issue no. 3244 published 24 August 2019

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