Coupling a political economic analysis of policy transformations with a critical sociology of urban inequality, the book contributes to an understanding of the structural dynamics of urban inequality in the Nordic welfare state context. It shows how the state and municipalities have allowed an entrepreneurial and profitoriented logic to penetrate these policies. From regulators of capitalist urbanisation, public bodies have increasingly become its institutional scaffolding.This brings with it a host of urban social problems linked to uneven development such segregation, gentrification, and housing displacement. The book also presents a novel critique of descriptive mainstream research, policy, and media narratives regarding urban inequality in Finland. It suggests that a lack of explanation regarding the structural dynamics of urban inequality has contributed to the disrepute of workingclass neighbourhoods, and their territorial stigmatisation.