The Post-Industrial City: Main Trends in European Urban Growth 1970-2015

• Nilsson, Lars ^[1]
  1. [1] Stockholm University

     Stockholm University

     Suecia

     
• Localización: As Cidades na História : Sociedade : atas [do] II Congresso Histórico Internacional : 18 a 20 de outubro de 2017, Vol. 2, 2017 (Cidade Contemporânea), ISBN 978-989-8474-54-4, págs. 7-24
• Idioma: inglés
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  • European urban development has in the past decades been characterised by two opposite trends: metropolisation and urban shrinkage. Major cities have expanded very quickly at the same moment as a large number of urban places have lost inhabitants. These tendencies can be seen all over Europe. This new trend of urban development began in many European countries in the 1970s, and can be understood as a consequence of the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial society. The industrial city was transformed into a post-industrial city. This process has included besides de-industrialisation also among else: globalisation, de-regulation of state monopolies, de-regulation of capital and exchange markets, privatisation of public property, introduction of new communication technologies, and European integration. It has had a profound impact on urban growth, morphology and geography, infrastructureand environment, politics and policies, governance and external relations.This article is about the new urban growth patterns that have characterised the post-industrial city. I start with Sweden as an example of urban development in the post-industrial era.