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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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The renewing of Energy Performance Certificates—Reaching comparability between decade-apart energy records
Jenny von Platten,Jenny von Platten,Carolina Holmberg,Mikael Mangold,Tim Johansson,Kristina Mjörnell,Kristina Mjörnell +6 more
TL;DR: Old and renewed Energy Performance Certificates can be utilised to successfully map development of energy performance and enable evaluation of the impact on energy performance from policies and measures that have been carried out between the two points of audit.
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Children's Perspectives on Public Playgrounds in Two Swedish Communities
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe children's perspectives on local public playgrounds and discuss the effect of the surrounding landscape on playground use by comparing two Swedish communities: one in the forest and one on open, arable land.
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Development and validation of energy signature method - Case study on a multi-family building in Sweden before and after deep renovation
TL;DR: The paper highlighted the accuracy of the proposed energy signature (PES) method and a sensitivity analysis on the inherent parameters have been performed and showed new ways of treatment of the thermal energy data and revealed how more information can be extracted from this data.
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Challenges for business change in district heating
TL;DR: In this article, the customer and resource-oriented sides of the municipally owned district heating business in Sweden are changing and a case study approach was adopted to generate new knowledge on how the business challenges are managed and the management strategy's impact on the business.
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Effects of energy efficiency measures in district-heated buildings on energy supply
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the final and primary energy savings for different energy efficiency measures in a multi-apartment building when heated by small-, medium- or large-scale district heat production systems (DHSs).
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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.