Media Intervention: First Impressions of Espoon Keskus

Despite living in Finland for most of my adult life, I have to admit that I've never come tp visit the Espoon Keskus area before. Our first visit was rather brief, and it is quite challenging to give a meaningful or in depth analysis based on the experience. To be more precise, I find it fairly difficult to give an analysis or an impression of any depth, and from this observation I conclude that the area was fairly complex to comprehend.

I felt the place to be somewhat distant and incomplete, but that being said, it might very well have a time of progress and development ahead of itself. The visit to the city hall gave us some insight of the future plans for the area and if they come to be implemented, the general comfortability and structure of the place are sure to progress. 

If I would put my first impression to one word, it would probably be "incomplete". The area seemed on some degree to be lacking structure, which might also be the reason it was so hard to "map" out. 

While walking trough the area we saw the city hall, an old church and apartment buildings. The scenery didn't vary much from a general landscape of a walk trough of any Finnish suburbia. From the city hall we passed the train station and walked to Entresse shopping centre. The only oddity I came across, was the abundance of empty store spaces in the shopping centre as well as a lack of passers by. It will be interesting to see how the impression changes, as we get to experience the area with more depth and time.