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Urban Inequality in Finland is a timely, engaging and thought-provoking account of a transforming Nordic social welfare state. Hyötyläinen investigates institutional and legal transformations in Finland, showing how the goals of land policy threatened the prevention, and even worsened, inequality. This important book is a must read for anyone interested in the structural dynamics of urban inequality. --Johanna Lilius, Aalto University

Urban Inequality in Finland is a timely, engaging and thought-provoking account of a transforming Nordic social welfare state. Hyötyläinen investigates institutional and legal transformations in Finland, showing how the goals of land policy threatened the prevention, and even worsened, inequality. This important book is a must read for anyone interested in the structural dynamics of urban inequality. -- Johanna Lilius, Aalto University [A] very readable and highly interesting book on landand housing policy in the production of urban inequality. The book is key for anybody interested in housing, land and the politics of urban inequalities in Finland and the Nordic countries more generally. -- Henrik Gutzon Larsen * Housing, Theory and Society *

Urban Inequality in Finland is a timely, engaging and thought-provoking account of a transforming Nordic social welfare state. Hyötyläinen investigates institutional and legal transformations in Finland, showing how the goals of land policy threatened the prevention, and even worsened, inequality. This important book is a must read for anyone interested in the structural dynamics of urban inequality. -- Johanna Lilius, Aalto University

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Mika Hyötyläinen is Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Sweden

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