Saija Toivonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4970931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saija Toivonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saija |
| FAMILY NAME | Toivonen |
| SIGNATURE | TOIVONEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9616-5007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Urban agriculture and the built environment
Publisher Copyright: © 2026
What makes residents prefer housing investment in a highly uncertain market? Perspectives from a survey in shrinking Finnish towns
Urban shrinkage is one of the more critical challenges of contemporary urban societies, and its negative impacts reflect into real estate market dynamics. Despite housing investment typically being the most significant investment of households, rather little is known about the investment rationale in shrinking cities where capital appreciation is considered uncertain. Using survey responses ( n = 313) from eight municipalities in Finland and empl…
Reimagining circularity
Transitioning towards a circular economy, where the existing building stock is more efficiently used, would significantly reduce material and energy use, emissions, and waste from the built environment sector. This study focuses on exploring what conditions are needed for circularity by imagining preferable circular futures for a 2035 timeframe and understanding the required actions to achieve them. Futures studies methods are used to focus on pr…
Megatrends and weak signals shaping future real estate
Society prepares for an envisioned future by shaping that future to align with current perceptions. This paper explores real estate market participants’ (n ≥ 840) perceptions of various forces influencing the future of housing, retail and office spaces, and their market environments. Real estate actors impact future cities through their space-use preferences, investment decisions and public regulations, which are driven by their expectations for …
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments
The aim of this book is to promote the dynamic resilience of societies by identifying, analysing, and exemplifying the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The book brings together the expertise of a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate…
Reimagining alternative future development trajectories of shrinking Finnish cities
Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities
Urban shrinkage poses significant challenges to Real Estate markets in Shrinking Cities and has multiple negative impacts on society, environment and economy. Although major cities are growing rapidly, a significant volume of building stock and population will endure in shrinking cities in the future. To enhance the resilience of local real estate markets and communities, forces that offer novel possibilities for shrinking cities should be active…
Resilience in the built environment
In the last decade, our built environment has been exposed to a significant and wide range of crises, from primary (e.g., pandemic, climate change-induced hazards) to secondary crises, such as their associated physical and mental health impacts. However, previous literature has mainly focused on the impacts of a single type of crisis in the built environment and solutions for individual impacts. Hence, in the face of multiple crises and their imp…
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy
New types of human capacities will be needed to achieve sustainable futures within our planet's limited boundaries. The capability of futures thinking, i.e., futures literacy is among the required proficiencies. This research explores how engaging in futures studies methods develops the futures literacy of upcoming city developers. Four student test groups, with altogether 373 participants, took part in futures studies lectures and workshop activ…
Looking at retail planning policy through a sustainability lens
Future themes in the operational environment of the Finnish cadastral system
Forces of change shaping the future commercial real estate market in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area in Finland
The built environment as a part of society is facing fast and constant changes occurring in the surrounding environment. This is a challenging situation for real estates because their character does not inherently support fast changes and constant development. Nevertheless there are many reasons why it is essential that also commercial real estates are able to answer to development goals set to them by different market actors. This can be achieve…
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy
New types of human capacities will be needed to achieve sustainable futures within our planet's limited boundaries. The capability of futures thinking, i.e., futures literacy is among the required proficiencies. This research explores how engaging in futures studies methods develops the futures literacy of upcoming city developers. Four student test groups, with altogether 373 participants, took part in futures studies lectures and workshop activ…
Forces of change shaping the future commercial real estate market in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area in Finland
The built environment as a part of society is facing fast and constant changes occurring in the surrounding environment. This is a challenging situation for real estates because their character does not inherently support fast changes and constant development. Nevertheless there are many reasons why it is essential that also commercial real estates are able to answer to development goals set to them by different market actors. This can be achieve…
Future themes in the operational environment of the Finnish cadastral system
Looking at retail planning policy through a sustainability lens
Forces of change shaping the future commercial real estate market in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area in Finland
The built environment as a part of society is facing fast and constant changes occurring in the surrounding environment. This is a challenging situation for real estates because their character does not inherently support fast changes and constant development. Nevertheless there are many reasons why it is essential that also commercial real estates are able to answer to development goals set to them by different market actors. This can be achieve…
Future themes in the operational environment of the Finnish cadastral system
Looking at retail planning policy through a sustainability lens
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy
New types of human capacities will be needed to achieve sustainable futures within our planet's limited boundaries. The capability of futures thinking, i.e., futures literacy is among the required proficiencies. This research explores how engaging in futures studies methods develops the futures literacy of upcoming city developers. Four student test groups, with altogether 373 participants, took part in futures studies lectures and workshop activ…
Resilience in the built environment
In the last decade, our built environment has been exposed to a significant and wide range of crises, from primary (e.g., pandemic, climate change-induced hazards) to secondary crises, such as their associated physical and mental health impacts. However, previous literature has mainly focused on the impacts of a single type of crisis in the built environment and solutions for individual impacts. Hence, in the face of multiple crises and their imp…
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities
Urban shrinkage poses significant challenges to Real Estate markets in Shrinking Cities and has multiple negative impacts on society, environment and economy. Although major cities are growing rapidly, a significant volume of building stock and population will endure in shrinking cities in the future. To enhance the resilience of local real estate markets and communities, forces that offer novel possibilities for shrinking cities should be active…
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments
The aim of this book is to promote the dynamic resilience of societies by identifying, analysing, and exemplifying the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The book brings together the expertise of a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate…
Reimagining alternative future development trajectories of shrinking Finnish cities
Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Reimagining circularity
Transitioning towards a circular economy, where the existing building stock is more efficiently used, would significantly reduce material and energy use, emissions, and waste from the built environment sector. This study focuses on exploring what conditions are needed for circularity by imagining preferable circular futures for a 2035 timeframe and understanding the required actions to achieve them. Futures studies methods are used to focus on pr…
Megatrends and weak signals shaping future real estate
Society prepares for an envisioned future by shaping that future to align with current perceptions. This paper explores real estate market participants’ (n ≥ 840) perceptions of various forces influencing the future of housing, retail and office spaces, and their market environments. Real estate actors impact future cities through their space-use preferences, investment decisions and public regulations, which are driven by their expectations for …
Urban agriculture and the built environment
Publisher Copyright: © 2026
What makes residents prefer housing investment in a highly uncertain market? Perspectives from a survey in shrinking Finnish towns
Urban shrinkage is one of the more critical challenges of contemporary urban societies, and its negative impacts reflect into real estate market dynamics. Despite housing investment typically being the most significant investment of households, rather little is known about the investment rationale in shrinking cities where capital appreciation is considered uncertain. Using survey responses ( n = 313) from eight municipalities in Finland and empl…
Business (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Real estate (4 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Housing Market and Economics (3 works) · Resizing (3 works)