Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781399501521)

Urban Inequality in Finland 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.

Author: Mika Hyötyläinen
ISBN-10: 1399501526
ISBN-13: 9781399501521
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d