In Search of Helsinki [antikvár]

People flowing towards the centre. The Railway Station and Kamppi. Aleksanterinkatu. The Empire Centre. Kruununhaka. Kataja-nokka. Esplanadi. Bulevardi.You can come to Helsinki by sea, by rail, by the seven national highways, and of course by air.The highways are all drawn to the same point, from different directions. When they near the city itself, the number of traffic lanes increases. The roads change their nature. They become motorways,and the space they demand has been carved out from the landscape with a heavy hand.Only very close to the heart the city does the stream of traffic packed into its channels fragment into the labyrinth of streets.But though the thoroughfares to the Finnish capital are the biggest in the land, they are still on adomestic scale, miniature, almost idyllic. They give the correct image of the place they lead to. They are only remote relatives of the monster roads of the world's great cities, which have seized the power to bruise everything beneath them like the whip-lashes of some cosmic monster.On a world scale Helsinki is