Reserve off Vasaratie, Viiala, Tampere

See it here. This is my last IR visit for Tampere (though another, to the Annikakatue block, will appear soon enough - I just need to make enough space on my computer to download the photographs, and I also need to report on a second visit to Käpyllä last weekend) - a fairly randomly chosen space in a middle-to-outer ring suburb. I chose to access it from the westernmost point, which was a forested path which was almost a linear IR of its own. 

On reaching the actual space, it seemed that once again we were dealing with a space that was at least in part created for drainage purposes.

The space itself is a classic IR playground form. Unusually, though, the space has three-storey apartments on one side and low-rise cluster housing on the other.

'No thoroughfare'. If I'd known at the time this is what this sign meant I would have heightened the strangeness of its positioning (it is very clearly not a thoroughfare, and the sign is almost behind a tree).

Back in the 'laneway'. I wonder if there is any kind of process, or for that matter documentation, relating to these rocks. They are all over the place in Finland; part of making a place habitable has been chopping down trees and blowing up or removing rocks. But has this rock been relocated because no-one wants this land, or just left there (for the same reason)? Maybe the answer's not important.