Gentrification in Helsinki

Urban Planning at the Edge of the Welfare State
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-62261-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

This book unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki, Finland. Here, housing and welfare policies work well under certain conditions to prevent the worst outcomes of residential gentrification. Yet other forms of gentrification have proliferated in recent years, and local urban planning has gained a momentum in efforts to remake the urban landscape for business and tourism.

Through a range of methods, each chapter approaches a different aspect of gentrification: the effectiveness of welfare policies against residential gentrification, the importance of retail gentrification and symbolic changes, the role of media and state-led tourism campaigns in promoting gentrification, the rise of vibrancy and sustainability as concepts driving regeneration, and the question of planning principles like participation in confronting gentrification. The reader will find a state system that supports a delicate balance in housing, but a local planning regime related to a more “generalized” gentrification. The results raise questions about the limits of the welfare state in an age of global competition.

While new readers of gentrification will benefit from a deep engagement with the literature, the case of Helsinki is relevant to all students of planning, social sciences, and urban studies, as well as professionals in related fields.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drain, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and tables

1. Introduction

2. Gentrification and the welfare state

3. Four cases in Helsinki

4. Classic gentrification and housing policy

5. General gentrification and retail change

6. Media, tourism, and gentrification

7. Vibrancy and sustainability in Helsinki’s planning

8. The remaking of Hakaniemi Market Hall

9. Conclusion: The welfare state in global competition

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Drain is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Geospatial and Population Studies at the University of New Mexico, USA. Most of his adult life has been split between Finland and the United States, where he has previously worked as a researcher in the land development and real estate industries.