Property, tenancy & urban growth in Stockholm & Berlin, 1860-1920
By: Håkan Forsell.
Series: Historical urban studies
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Real property -- Sweden -- Stockholm -- History.; Real property -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.; Urbanization -- Sweden -- Stockholm -- History.; Urbanization -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
Other titles: Property, tenancy and urban growth in Stockholm and Berlin, 1860-1920
Description: "From the middle of the nineteenth century, most European cities experienced a period of unrivalled growth and development that forever changed not only their physical characteristics, but also their social foundations. As the great industrial cities were forced to face the new and unprecedented challenges of rapid urbanisation and increased population, they had to rethink many of the concepts on which previous city, institutions had been based. One of the most fundamental of these was the role of house ownership, and the rights and responsibilities it offered."

"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. Focussing on two northern European capital cities, Berlin and Stockholm, it provides a symmetrical investigation that helps illuminate the competing factors that shaped the shifting nature of cityscapes and urban social structures."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Property owners and the emergence of municipal self government; title: Associations, liberalism and thrift; title: Towards municipal democracy; title: Regulation, development and settlement; title: Residential property in debt; title: Rental barracks and land reforms; title: Nineteenth century tenancy; title: The housing acts of 1900 and 1907; title: Wartime and emergency legislation on the housing market during the First World War.