Editing Tampere (section)

=== Post-war period and modern day ===

[[File:Yhteiskunnallinen korkeakoulu muuttaa.jpg|thumb|left|The Social University moves to Tampere in 1960.]]
The dominant force in Tampere's municipal politics after the [[Second World War]] was the Brothers-in-Arms Axis (''aseveliakseli''), which consisted mainly of the [[National Coalition Party]] and the [[Social Democratic Party of Finland|Social Democrats]]. While the [[Centre Party (Finland)|Centre Party]] was the largest political force in the Finnish countryside, it had no practical relevance in Tampere.<ref name=ekman/>

[[File:Filming a television program at Frenckell’s studio in Tampere, 1.2.1965 (19746637354).jpg|alt=|right|thumb|Tamvisio's [[camera operator]]s film a [[television program]] at Frenckell's studio on 2 January 1965 in Tampere.]]
After the Second World War, Tampere was enlarged by the incorporation of some neighbouring areas. Messukylä was incorporated in 1947, [[Lielahti]] in 1950, Aitolahti in 1966 and [[Teisko]] in 1972. Already in 1937 the most part of modern western Tampere, including Pispala, was annexed to the city from North Pirkkala (today Nokia). Tampere passed the 100,000 population mark in 1950.<ref name=antila/> Tampere was long known for its textile and metal industries, but these were largely replaced by information technology and telecommunications in the 1990s. The Hermia technology centre in [[Hervanta]] is home to many companies in these fields.<ref name=technopolis/><ref name=tampereen/> [[Yleisradio]] began broadcasting its second television channel, [[Yle TV2]], from [[Ristimäki]], Tampere, in 1965,<ref name=taavitsainen/><ref name=yle_tesvisio/> making Finland the first of the Nordic countries to receive a second television channel, after Sweden's [[SVT2]] began broadcasting four years later. Tampere became a [[university]] city when the Social University moved from Helsinki to Tampere in 1960, becoming the [[University of Tampere]] in 1966.<ref name=kaataja/> In 1979, the [[Tampere-Pirkkala airport]] was opened {{cvt|13|km}} from the centre of Tampere on the Pirkkala side of the city.<ref name=businesstampere_tampere_pirkkala/><ref name=aamulehti_2018-05-17/>

At the turn of the 1990s, Tampere's industry underwent a major structural change, as the production of Tampella and Tampere's textile industry in particular was heavily focused on [[bilateral trade]] with the Soviet Union, but when the Soviet Union [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|collapsed in 1991]], the companies lost their main customers. As a result of the sudden change and the [[Early 1990s depression in Finland|depression of the early 1990s]], Finlayson and Suomen Trikoo had to scale down their operations drastically. Tampella went [[bankrupt]].<ref name=tekniikkatalous_2019-12-08/> But although the change left a huge amount of vacant industrial space in the city centre, in the early 2000s it was gradually put to other uses, and today's Tampere cityscape is mainly characterised by strong [[Information technology|IT]] companies, most notably [[Nokia]]'s Tampere R&D units.<ref name=uusiteknologia/>