Kerstin Enflo
Professor
Urban planning and town foundations
Författare
Summary, in English
Urban growth is crucial for modernisation, and the wave of new towns in China since the 1980s is one example of a strategy employed by policymakers to encourage the process. This column analyses the long-run success of a town foundation policy in Sweden between 1570 and 1810. While the ‘artificially’ created towns failed to grow in the short term, they eventually began to grow and thrive, and today are as resilient as their medieval counterparts.
Avdelning/ar
- Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2019-01-03
Språk
Engelska
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Webbpublikation
Förlag
voxeu.org
Ämne
- Economic History
Nyckelord
- urbanisation
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- The evolution regional economies in the Nordic region – A long run approach