1st Edition

Stockholm The Making of a Metropolis

By Thomas Hall Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first history of Stockholm’s development from the city’s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. While the city’s planners borrowed the ideas from abroad at certain periods, they provided the lead for the rest of the world at others. For much of the mid-twentieth century Stockholm was the model for Europe and elsewhere.... Read more

Introduction  1. Stockholm – A Planned City?  2. The Capital of a Great Power  3. The Lindhagen Plan: A Vision Realized  4. The Completion of the Inner City, 1900–1940  5. The Coming of the Outer City: From Enskede to Skarpnäck  6. ‘A Display Window for Sweden’: The Rise and Fall of the City-Centre Reconstruction  7. Concluding Reflections: A Look Back at Aspects of Recent Developments  Stockholm in the New Millennium  Controversial Metropolitan Icons: Tall Buildings in the Stockholm Cityscape by Martin Rörby

Biography

Thomas Hall is Professor of Art History at Stockholm University. His teaching and research focus on the history of architecture and urban design, especially that of Stockholm.