Property, Tenancy and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin, 1860?1920

List of contents

Contents: Introduction. Part 1 Property and Urban Politics: Property owners and the emergence of municipal self government; Associations, liberalism and thrift; Towards municipal democracy. Part 2 Building and Lending: Regulation, development and settlement; Residential property in debt; Rental barracks and land reforms. Part 3 Under One Roof: 19th-century tenancy; The Housing Acts of 1900 and 1907; Wartime and emergency legislation on the housing market during the First World War. Final summary and discussion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Håkan Forsell

Summary

Exploring the social and political meanings attributed to property - specifically home ownership - this study looks at how these changed during the course of the modern city building process between 1860 and 1920.

Product details

• Authors: FORSELL, Hakan Forsell, Håkan Forsell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815391180
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9118-0
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history