Architecture and Welfare
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About this book
Architecture was fundamental to the realization of welfare state policy in the Nordic countries, translating democratic ideals into concrete spatial materializations. An inclusive notion of “welfare for all” was embraced by a generation of architects, landscape architects, and planners, who labored to give physical form to ideas of equality, collectivity, and
democracy, producing a vast architectural output in Scandinavia during the postwar years. Today, however, the architectural legacy of this era is contested. Welfare for all no longer enjoys the social or political consensus it once did.
This publication critically engages with this contested architectural legacy and provides a nuanced portrait of postwar welfare architecture coming to terms with a contentious past and facing an uncertain future
Author / Editor information
Prof. Thordis Arrhenius, School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm
Prof. Ellen Braae, Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen
Dr. Guttorm Ruud, Oslo School of Architecture and Design
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Frontmatter
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CONTENT
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Introduction
22 - PART 1: FORMATIONS AND MATERIALIZATIONS
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Monumentality and Mass Housing in Sweden —The Transformation of a Model
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Danish Playgrounds and the Formation of the Welfare Citizen
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Cabin Controversies —Balancing Individual and Collective Welfare in Norwegian Cabin Politics
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Fragments, Whispers, and Materials in Spring
97 - PART 2: NETWORKS AND ACTORS
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Local Agency and Transnational Collaborations —Stockholm During the Second World War
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Catherine Bauer —International Exchanges and Swedish Housing Policy
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A Welfare State on the Drawing Board —Socialist Architects in the Norwegian Labor Movement
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Material Networks —Art in Concrete and the Swedish Building Industry
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Concrete Suburb
193 - PART 3: DISCOURSES AND CRITIQUES
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Children in Crisis —Community, Activism, and the Norwegian Satellite Town Stigma
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Dangerous Youth—Spatial Determinism and the Rejection of Modernist Mass Housing in 1970s Denmark
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“Daddy is a Computer” —The Stubborn Story of the Swedish Million Program
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The Great Betrayal —A Swedish Critique of Welfare State Architecture
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Architects Caught in the Net of Social Democracy —Norwegian Marxist-Leninism and Postwar Architecture
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Living in a Satellite Town
289 - PART 4: RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS AND NEW FORMATIONS
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From Commons to Public Space —Relational Green Open Spaces in Danish Housing Estates
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The Worth of Welfare in Sweden —Who Benefits from Market Models in the Public Sector?
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The Danish Welfare City
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Quality Criteria and the Neoliberalization of City Life in Helsinki
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Toward an Architecture of Planetary Welfare
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Index
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Illustration Credits
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Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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