Stockholm [ the making of a metropolis
"In this unique study of the Swedish capital, Thomas Hall focuses on the phases of development which shaped the Stockholm of the twenty-first century, and whose impacts can be clearly read in today's urban environment, often interwoven with each other." "Following the emergence o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | Planning, history and environment
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Medieval Stockholm : a planned city?
- 2. The capital of a great power
- 3. The Lindhagen plan : a vision realized
- 4. The completion of the inner city, 1900-1940
- 5. The coming of the outer city : from Enskede to Skarpna?ck
- 'A display window for Sweden' : the rise and fall of the city-centre reconstruction
- 6. Concluding reflections : a look back at aspects of Stockholm's developments
- 7. Stockholm in the new millennium
- 8. Controversial metropolitan icons : tall buildings in the Stockholm