Nordic Welfare Cities
Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern, inclusive welfare cities.
In the contemporary world, the role of cities as hotbeds for progressive change has become increasingly topical. Historical studies on how Nordic cities addressed social and environmental questions a hundred years ago and how they eventually created new and inclusive policies for the future is a useful contribution to the current debate. The concept of the welfare city is addressed and elaborated upon to analyse the attempts by urban authorities to solve the problems following industrialization and urbanization. From the late nineteenth century, municipal public services promoted the integration of new groups in the urban community including workers, immigrants, women and children. The contributions in this book analyse various examples of welfare and public services that include infrastructure and transport systems, health care, housing conditions, outdoor life and entertainment. The chapters highlight the arguments and considerations promoting welfare policies, while also addressing differences between the Nordic countries. The evolution of the Nordic welfare city was a process of several overlapping phases or dimensions.
This volume will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in urban history, social and cultural history and European history.
Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Nordic welfare city: urban community and public services since 1850
- 2 Negotiating water and citizenship in Copenhagen 1850–1950
- 3 Municipalization in Norwegian cities c. 1850–1920
- 4 Theatre and the making of the welfare city: Gothenburg’s performance stages, 1880s–1934
- 5 Municipal services and modern citizenship in Helsinki in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- 6 A tale of two tramways: municipal organization and private enterprise in Stockholm and Kristiania, c. 1900
- 7 The rise of the negotiated welfare city after the Civil War: inclusion, welfare and reconciliation
- 8 Infrastructural citizenship: the everyday politics of slum clearance in mid-twentieth-century Copenhagen
- 9 The conflict-filled holiday village: the expansion of summer houses in the Copenhagen metropolis’ open land 1918–1990
- 10 Three types of welfare cities: the case of Sweden
- 11 The Nordic welfare city – types and dimensions
- Index