The capital area of Finland is composed of an urban conglomerate, the original heart of which is the City of Helsinki, founded in 1550. The population of this area, 800,000 at present is soaring towards 1 million people due to the rapid growth of the satellite towns of Espoo (119,000 inhabitants), Vantaa (114,000) and Kauniainen (7000), while the population of Helsinki itself (500,000) is continuously diminishing. Within this region we already have substantion of growing social pressure due to urbanization. However, taken as a whole, the state of our technical and social environment is rather healthy.