1st Edition

Urban Life in Nordic Countries

Edited By Heiko Droste Copyright 2024
448 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

448 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

448 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Based on empirical studies, this book investigates the particular urban history of the North from the 17th century until today in a comparative, Northern perspective. Urban Life in Nordic Countries is the result of a conference on "Urbanity in the Periphery" held in Stockholm on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Urban History at Stockholm University, aimed at... Read more

1. Northern Cities in European Perspective

Peter Clark

Part 1: Cities and State-Building in Early-Modern Empires

2. Copenhagen and Stockholm — Two Kings and Their Capitals in the Early 17th Century: Visions and Reality

Marianne Råberg

3. Swedish Laws and the German Nation — The National Conflict in Nyen: Ingria’s Nationality Question

Piret Lotman

4. The Economic-Military Position of Nyen in the Swedish Kingdom and the Baltic Sea Area in the Late 17th Century

Kasper Kepsu

5. A Tale of Two Fortress Towns: Militarization Generating Urbanisation in 18th-Century Helsinki-Sveaborg and Ruotsinsalmi

Juha-Matti Granqvist and Sofia Gustafsson

Part 2: Planning the Nordic Cities

6. Urban "Minor Utopias" in the Planning of Norwegian Towns

Steinar Aas

7. New Towns?: Urbanisation in Finland Between the 1920s and 1970s

Matti O. Hannikainen

8. Urban Metabolism on the Fringes of Europe

Mikkel Thelle

Part 3: Social Fabric and Infrastructures

9. Skjern from Within: A Social Network Analysis of Religious Revival and Social Elites in a Small Western Jutland New Town, 1880–1930

Christian Ringskou

10. Negotiating Citizenship on the Urban Periphery: Mass Housing, Resident Democracy, and Acts of Citizenship in 1970s Denmark

Mikkel Høghøj

11. Care, Curiosity and Government: A Comparative History of Hospitals in the Nordic Countries, 1750–2000

Rolf Hugoson

Part 4: Nordic Cities Meeting the 21st Century

12. The Øresund Metropolis: The History of the Inter-Scandinavian Urban Region

Henning Bro

13. Phases of Urbanisation: Sweden, 1800–2020

Lars Nilsson

14. Creative Internationalism

Marjatta Hietala

Part 5: Making Sense of Urban History

15. Between Socialist Ideals and Bourgeois Aspiration: National Cities Associations and Municipal Movement in 1903–1913 in Nordic Countries

Laura Kolbe

16. Driving Forces in the Evolution of Stockholm and Umeå: Questioning Historical Plans to Inform the Design of Urban Space

Jaime Montes Bentura

17. Heritagization and the Use of History in Swedish Arctic Towns

Jennie Sjöholm and Anna Elmén Berg

Biography

Heiko Droste is Professor of Urban History at Stockholm University. His research interests concern Swedish and Baltic premodern history, welfare cities, urban memory cultures, and nostalgia.