Title Architecture and the welfare state / edited by Mark Swenarton, Tom Avermaete and Dirk van den Heuvel

Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 353 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; Part I Cultures and continuities; 2 From Red Superblock to Green Megastructure: Municipal Socialism as Model and Challenge; 3 The Welfare State in Flanders: De-Pillarization and the Nebulous City; 4 The Beginnings of High-Rise Social Housing in the Long 1940s: The Case of the LCC and the Woodberry Down Estate; 5 West Ham and the Welfare State 1945-1970: a Suitable Case for Treatment?; Part II Critiques and contradictions; 6 Who Needs 'Needs'? French Post-War Architecture and its Critics 7 The Open Society and Its Experiments: The Case of the Netherlands and Piet Blom8 Where the Motorways Meet: Architecture and Corporatism in Sweden 1968; 9 The Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin; 10 Alternatives to Welfare State: Self-Build and Do-It-Yourself; Part III National and international; 11 From Knoxville to Bidonville: ATBAT and the Architecture of the French Welfare State; 12 High Density without High Rise: Housing Experiments of the 1950s by Patrick Hodgkinson; 13 Matteotti Village and Gallaratese 2: Design Criticism of the Italian Welfare State 14 Exporting New Towns: The Welfare City in Africa15 From European Welfare State to Asian Capitalism: The Transformation of 'British Public Housing' in Hong Kong and Singapore; Appendix: Outcomes from the Liverpool Workshop 2012; Further Reading; Contributors; List of figures; Index Summary In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres - involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and far-rea Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Architecture and state -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century Architecture and society -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century Welfare state -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments. ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice. ARCHITECTURE -- Reference. Architecture and society Architecture and state Welfare state Western Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Swenarton, Mark, editor. Avermaete, Tom, editor. Heuvel, Dirk van den, 1968- editor. ISBN 9781317661900 1317661907

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