Raine Mäntysalo

Professori
Professori
T213 Built Environment

I am Full Professor of strategic urban planning and Head of Department at Aalto University, Department of Built Environment. I am also Docent at University of Oulu, specialized in planning theory and communicative planning. I am editorial member of the journals Planning Theory, Planning Theory and Practice, European Planning Studies and Nordic Journal of Urban Studies. I have recently published articles on strategies, boundary crossing, institutions, democracy and power in spatial and land use planning. I have been visiting professor in Politecnico di Milano, University of Amsterdam, Newcastle University and University of Aalborg.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Contact information

Phone number
+358505124525

Areas of expertise

Planning theory, planning practice, strategic spatial planning, land-use planning system, 2 Engineering and technology, 211 Architecture, 5 Social sciences, Community planning, Municipal engineering, Environmental social science research

Honors and awards

The AESOP Best Paper Prize 2003

Article: Dilemmas in Critical PLanning Theory, Town Planning Review 73(4)
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Built Environment Jan 2003

The Finnish Urban Research Paper of the Year Award 2010 (with Pia Bäcklund, first author)

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Built Environment Jan 2010

AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award

Commendation in the competition for the AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Built Environment Jul 2020

AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award

Commendation in the competition for the AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Built Environment Jul 2020

Research groups

  • Planning and Transportation, Professor

Publications

From forecasts to scenarios in strategic city-regional land-use and transportation planning

Raine Mäntysalo, Kaisa Granqvist, Oya Duman, Miloš Mladenović 2023 Regional Studies

Public Planner – A Deliberative Authority

Raine Mäntysalo, Martin Westin, Hanna Mattila 2023 Planning Theory and Practice

Alue- ja yhdyskuntarakenteen mahdolliset tulevaisuudet : PERUS-SKENE-hankkeen loppuraportti

Mikko Airikkala, Anu Castren, Ville Helminen, Santtu Karhinen, Kati-Jasmin Kosonen, Veeti Kuivalainen, Matti Lindholm, Hanna Mattila, Raine Mäntysalo, Hanna Nieminen, Tero Piippo, Antti Rehunen, Matti Sahlberg 2022

Challenges in land use and transport planning integration in Helsinki metropolitan region—a historical-institutional perspective

Oya Duman, Raine Mäntysalo, Kaisa Granqvist, Emily Johnson, Niko Matti Ronikonmäki 2022 Sustainability (Switzerland)

Multiple Dimensions of Strategic Spatial Planning : Local Authorities Navigating between Rationalities in Competitive and Collaborative Settings

K. Granqvist, H. Mattila, R. Mäntysalo, A. Hirvensalo, S. Teerikangas, H. Kalliomäki 2021 Planning Theory and Practice

Tensions in city-regional spatial planning : the challenge of interpreting layered institutional rules

Kaisa Granqvist, Alois Humer, Raine Mäntysalo 2021 Regional Studies

Agency in circular city ecosystems—A rationalities perspective

Antero Hirvensalo, Satu Teerikangas, Noelia Sarah Reynolds, Helka Kalliomäki, Raine Mäntysalo, Hanna Mattila, Kaisa Granqvist 2021 Sustainability (Switzerland)

Regional planning : an arena of interests, institutions and relations

Eva Purkarthofer, Alois Humer, Raine Mantysalo 2021 Regional Studies

[Special issue:] Regional planning : interests, institutions and relations

Eva Purkarthofer, Alois Humer, Raine Mantysalo 2021 Regional Studies