Urban Inequality in Finland

Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Mika Hyötyläinen, Sweden) Hyotylainen, Mika (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Uppsala University

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Taking on Finland as its main case study, Urban Inequality in a Nordic Welfare State investigates urban governance, land and housing policies and the uneven development of the built environment. It analyses city strategies, policy documents and interviews with urban authorities to show how decentralisation, growing inter-city competition and the adopting of economic policies informed by an ideology of efficiency and entrepreneurialism in governance, have prompted the state and cities in Finland to sell public, urban land to get money for public treasuries. It demonstrates how recent transformations in the policies of a Nordic welfare state that have traditionally worked to curb urban inequalities, now allow for them to become exacerbated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-01
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399501514

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IntroductionPart I: Urban Inequality and the Nordic Welfare State1. Inequality as a Research Topic in Urban Studies2. The Age of Segregation Research in Finland3. The Nordic Welfare State in TransformationPart II: Entrepreneurialism in Public Land Policy4. The Corporatisation of Public Property5. Entrepreneurial Public Real Estate Policy in ActionPart III: The Inequalities of Housing Policy6. The Specialisation of Social Housing7. Locking Out Use ValueCodaReferencesAppendixIndex

Urban Inequality in Finland is a timely, engaging and thought-provoking account of a transforming Nordic social welfare state. Hyötyläinen investigates institutional and legal transformations in Finland, showing how the goals of land policy threatened the prevention, and even worsened, inequality. This important book is a must read for anyone interested in the structural dynamics of urban inequality.