Narvik, a Swedish Norwegian Border Town

• Published in: Mesto a dejiny
• Main Author: Steinar Aas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Urban History; Modernization; Industrialization; Norwegian History; Swedish History; Technology; Urban Planning; Memory Studies; Rallar; Labour History; The City and History; Filozofická fakulta UPJŠ; Narvik; Norway; Lapland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.33542/MAD2019-1-03

This article gives an insight into the industrialization and colonization processes of northern Scandinavia. Urbanization due to industrialization is a vital part of the perspective, and brings us into an industrial mega system in Swedish Lapland in the late nineteenth century based on iron ore expo...