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The Million Homes Programme: a review of the great Swedish planning project
Thomas Hall,Sonja Vidén +1 more
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In Sweden, the Million Homes Programme (MHP) as discussed by the authors was proposed to solve the housing shortage in the first decades of the post-war era by building a million new dwellings.Abstract:
The first decades of the post‐war era saw a large and quickly growing need for new housing. In Sweden, rapid urbanization, growing prosperity and demands for higher housing standards led to years‐long housing queues. The housing shortage became a political liability for the ruling Social Democratic party. To end the housing shortage once and for all, the Swedish parliament decided that a million new dwellings should be built in the period 1965 to 1974 and this was achieved. When the Million Homes Programme, as it came to be called, had reached barely half‐way, the housing shortage was replaced by a housing surplus, partly caused by the rapid expansion of the housing stock and by the fact that economic growth gave way to stagnation. At the same time, criticism began to be heard about what some people perceived as uniform and poor architecture and, since then, the Million Homes Programme has never ceased to engage people and provoke debate. Most of the buildings and areas of this era have survived quite wel...read more
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From Housing Inequalities to an Unjust Energy Transition: Data-driven analyses of socio-technical links in the Swedish multifamily building stock
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that low-income households have carried the greatest share of the past decade's energy savings in the Swedish multifamily building stock and explored its implications for distributive justice of benefits and burdens among residents.
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Social Motivations for Knowledge Sharing in Construction Companies
Mary Lundberg,Helena Lidelöw +1 more
TL;DR: In 1965, a political initiative was taken launched to solve the lack of accommodation in Sweden, and during a ten-year period about one million new homes were built-the Million Homes programme.
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The Sociolectal and Stylistic Variability of Rhythm in Stockholm.
TL;DR: In this article, the question of staccato rhythm in Stockholm's multiethnolect is investigated by comparing nPVIV measurements of the speech of 36 adult male speakers.
Beyond the building–understanding building renovations in relation to urban energy systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that 35% of Europe's building stock is over 50 years old and consumes about 175 kWh/m2 for heating, between 3-5 times the amount required by the newly constructed buildings.
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The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home? Potentials and Dilemmas of Homemaking in the Public among the Somali-Swedes in Rinkeby, Stockholm
Aurora Massa,Paolo Boccagni +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored various forms of homemaking in the public among the Somali-Swedes who live in the Rinkeby neighbourhood of Stockholm, Sweden, and showed how, in the case of vulnerable immigrants, a neighbourhood feels like home insofar as it facilitates a continuity with their past ways of living, sensuous connections with a shared "Somaliness", reproduction of transnational ties, and protection from the sense of being "otherised" that often creeps among them.
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Estates on the edge: the social consequences of mass housing in Northern Europe.
TL;DR: Estates on the Edge as mentioned in this paper describes the decline and rescue of low income government-sponsored housing estates across Northern Europe giving a vivid account of the intense physical, social and organisational problems facing social landlords in five countries.