The Danish Welfare City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENT 20
3. Introduction 22
4. PART 1: FORMATIONS AND MATERIALIZATIONS
5. Monumentality and Mass Housing in Sweden —The Transformation of a Model 31
6. Danish Playgrounds and the Formation of the Welfare Citizen 61
7. Cabin Controversies —Balancing Individual and Collective Welfare in Norwegian Cabin Politics 75
8. Fragments, Whispers, and Materials in Spring 97
9. PART 2: NETWORKS AND ACTORS
10. Local Agency and Transnational Collaborations —Stockholm During the Second World War 115
11. Catherine Bauer —International Exchanges and Swedish Housing Policy 137
12. A Welfare State on the Drawing Board —Socialist Architects in the Norwegian Labor Movement 157
13. Material Networks —Art in Concrete and the Swedish Building Industry 175
14. Concrete Suburb 193
15. PART 3: DISCOURSES AND CRITIQUES
16. Children in Crisis —Community, Activism, and the Norwegian Satellite Town Stigma 211
17. Dangerous Youth—Spatial Determinism and the Rejection of Modernist Mass Housing in 1970s Denmark 227
18. “Daddy is a Computer” —The Stubborn Story of the Swedish Million Program 239
19. The Great Betrayal —A Swedish Critique of Welfare State Architecture 257
20. Architects Caught in the Net of Social Democracy —Norwegian Marxist-Leninism and Postwar Architecture 271
21. Living in a Satellite Town 289
22. PART 4: RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS AND NEW FORMATIONS
23. From Commons to Public Space —Relational Green Open Spaces in Danish Housing Estates 307
24. The Worth of Welfare in Sweden —Who Benefits from Market Models in the Public Sector? 325
25. The Danish Welfare City 339
26. Quality Criteria and the Neoliberalization of City Life in Helsinki 357
27. Toward an Architecture of Planetary Welfare 373
28. Index 383
29. Illustration Credits 388
30. Contributors 390
31. Acknowledgments 392