Dream City – Helsinki is a visual journey through the old architectural heart of Helsinki. The book shows how the city was planned and shaped by the politics and ideas of the 19th century. More than 70 photographs illustrate that even today the “Daughter of the Baltic” has lost nothing of its charm and beauty.

Dietmar Tallroth, b. 1961, is a lawyer, writer and photographer. German by birth, but Finn by choice he works and lives with his wife in Helsinki, the city of his dreams.