Urban Life in Nordic Countries

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.

• 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