Francesco Zavatti is postdoctoral researcher in history at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University (Sweden), and lecturer in history at the Department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University (Italy). You can read more about Francesco by clicking here.
2020.04.21 | Article, Francesco Zavatti, The Borders of the Nordics, Cooperation, Architecture & design
A globally renowned icon, the bridge is in fact part rail/road bridge and part tunnel spanning the Oresund (or ‘The Sound’) between Denmark and Sweden. It was completed in 2000, but it has a rather long and convoluted history. It is a symbol of many and sometimes opposing things: Nordic cooperation in the economy and engineering, as well as the…