Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalisation and Social Sustainability

The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities highlights the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities against the backdrop of ongoing global societal transformations. It contributes to the literature on urban development in advanced societies by bringing in theoretical and empirical analyses of how migration, inequality, residential segregation, and changes in national and local policy intersects and unfolds in urban landscapes in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In particular this volume contributes with insights to how these processes play out in a Scandinavian welfare state-context. In The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities we learn in which ways and how progress is being made today.

Magnus Johanson has a PhD in Pedagogy and is a Lecturer in Climate studies. He is Head of the Section of built environment at the Department of Urban Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Erica Righard, PhD, is a Willy Brandt research fellow at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), and a senior lecturer at the Departement of Social Work, both at Malmö University. Tapio Salonen is a Professor in Social Studies and Dean at Malmö University.