Hundipea Neighbourhood Playbook
A playbook for shaping neighbourhoods
The Hundipea Neighbourhood Playbook is a 130-page book on neighbourhood-making. It helps shape the social and everyday life of future neighbourhoods and connects the human aspects with physical planning. It brings together commitments, principles and practical actions – illustrated through case studies – that strengthen social infrastructure, support shared use and bring public spaces to life.
The playbook is written for everyone involved in shaping neighbourhoods: architects, planners, investors, community groups, developers, researchers, cultural actors, future residents and others.
While grounded in the Hundipea case, it is designed to support shared understanding and offer inspiration for neighbourhood development more broadly. It helps bridge the gap between long-term strategies and on-the-ground actions by providing a common reference for decisions over the coming decades.
The authors
The playbook is edited by Christian Pagh, former Director and Chief Curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale and one of the leading voices in contemporary neighbourhood thinking. Co-editor Mattias Malk is an urbanist and researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, with interdisciplinary work spanning urban matters, mobility and architectural history.
The playbook was created together with the Hundipea team.
Why it matters
In long and complex urban projects, social and cultural ambitions can easily fade as plans evolve and new actors become involved. The playbook serves as a shared reference for everyone involved in making Hundipea, helping keep decisions aligned throughout the long development timeline.
Rather than covering every aspect of urban development, it focuses on neighbourhood quality – the social and physical elements that make a place work well for people.
What's inside
The playbook brings together: core commitments that guide long-term neighbourhood-making; concrete actions for strengthening social infrastructure, public life, nature and mobility; case studies from the Nordic region and beyond; design and planning principles that support everyday life and shared use; lessons from early neighbourhood-making at Hundipea.
Together, these elements offer practical reference points for shaping neighbourhoods over time.
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