The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities highlights the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities against the backdrop of ongoing global societal transformations. It contributes to the literature on urban development in advanced societies by bringing in theoretical and empirical analyses of how migration, inequality, residential segregation, and changes in national and local policy intersects and unfolds in urban landscapes in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In particular this volume contributes with insights to how these processes play out in a Scandinavian welfare state-context. In The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities we learn in which ways and how progress is being made today.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Social transformations in Scandinavian cities
  • An introduction
• I Theoretical perspectives and the scandinavian welfare state context
  • 1. The great transformation of our time
    • Towards just and socially sustainable Scandinavian cities
  • 2. International migration and the social-democratic welfare regime
  • 3. Discourses of employment and inclusion in Sweden
    • Governing citizens, governing suburban peripheries
• II Urban marginality in the scandinavian welfare states
  • 4. The necessity of socio-dynamic analyses of the city
    • The case of Malmö
  • 5. Trust and distrust in Oslo
    • Examining the relationship between the ideals of urban policy and the (re)actions of citizens
  • 6. ‘Ghettoization’ and ‘parallel societies’ in Denmark
    • Public rhetoric and lived lives
  • 7. Invading our homelands
    • New beggars on the streets of Oslo
  • 8. The production of deportability
  • 9. Inclusion and exclusion in a residential narrative of ‘us’ and ‘them’
• III Inequality management in scandinavian cities
  • 10. The whole city or the city as a whole?
    • Questioning the conceptual assumptions of social sustainability in urban governance
  • 11. Segregation of living conditions in Nørrebro
  • 12. Conflicts and meaning-making in sustainable urban development
  • 13. Reflections on the right to health
  • 14. Behind the line of disintegration
  • Practices of transborder citizenship among diasporan Kurds in Sweden
  • Urban marginalization in Scandinavian cities
    • Conclusions and ways forward
• Acknowledgements
• About the authors