Urban Life in Nordic Countries

ISBN-13: 9781032387215 / Twarda / 2023 / 448 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Northern Cities in European Perspective  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  3. Swedish Laws and the German Nation — The National Conflict in Nyen: Ingria’s Nationality Question  4. The Economic-Military Position of Nyen in the Swedish Kingdom and the Baltic Sea Area in the Late 17th Century  5. A Tale of Two Fortress Towns: Militarization Generating Urbanisation in 18th-Century Helsinki-Sveaborg and Ruotsinsalmi  Part 2: Planning the Nordic Cities  6. Urban "Minor Utopias" in the Planning of Norwegian Towns  7. New Towns?: Urbanisation in Finland Between the 1920s and 1970s  8. Urban Metabolism on the Fringes of Europe  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  10. Negotiating Citizenship on the Urban Periphery: Mass Housing, Resident Democracy, and Acts of Citizenship in 1970s Denmark  11. Care, Curiosity and Government: A Comparative History of Hospitals in the Nordic Countries, 1750–2000  Part 4: Nordic Cities Meeting the 21st Century  12. The Øresund Metropolis: The History of the Inter-Scandinavian Urban Region  13. Phases of Urbanisation: Sweden, 1800–2020  14. Creative Internationalism  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  16. Driving Forces in the Evolution of Stockholm and Umeå: Questioning Historical Plans to Inform the Design of Urban Space  17. Heritagization and the Use of History in Swedish Arctic Towns

O autorze

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.