Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2011 | Page 30

The Making
of the Creative Class

Photo: City of Helsinki / Matti Tirri

HYY Real Estate celebrates its proud legacy and
looks for new challenges
While Helsinki enjoys
a reputation of being
one of the hippest places
around, its urban roots
are surprisingly short.
One major chapter in the
development of the future
capital was the migration
of the university from
Turku to Helsinki in 1817 –
as a consequence, Helsinki
became an academic town
and an intellectual centre.

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inland remained tugged in
the lap of the Russian Empire, but the sprouts of nationalism were already evident in the
young students. Originally, university students would meet at
their professors’ homes, for they
had no other place to go. The
student body dreamed o