| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Series |
Planning, History and Environment series |
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Planning, history, and the environment series.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Medieval Stockholm: A Planned City?; Chapter 2 The Capital of a Great Power; Chapter 3 The Lindhagen Plan: A Vision Realized; Chapter 4 The Completion of the Inner City, 1900-1940; Chapter 5 The Coming of the Outer City: From Enskede to Skarpnäck; Chapter 6 'A Display Window for Sweden': The Rise and Fall of the City-Centre Reconstruction; Chapter 7 Concluding Reflections: A Look Back at Aspects of Stockholm's Development; Stockholm in the New Millennium |
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Controversial Metropolitan Icons: Tall Buildings in the Stockholm CityscapeBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This is the first history of Stockholm?s development from the city?s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. For much of the mid-twentieth century Stockholm was the planning model for Europe and elsewhere. Written by an acknowledged authority on the city and Swedish architecture and planning generally, this book provides a much needed explanation of one of Europe?s great cities |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203462072 |
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0203462076 |
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