Full Description
This collective volume investigates the multi-scalar and international manifestations of planning models, projects and policies from the mid-twentieth century onwards. The publication aims to delineate the notion of welfare planning and situate its historical emergence in its application to social, environmental and spatial policies. Taking a global perspective - including study cases from France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sri Lanka, the USSR and the USA - the book interrogates how physical design played an essential role in social and economic modernization by way of state-market balance, from liberal to socialist systems. The articles examine how planning policies addressed well-being and living standards as devices to shape a welfare society. The authors gather planning, social and urban historians from France, Denmark and Netherlands to offer new insights into transnational research in architectural and urban welfare studies.
Contents
Dorian Bianco: Introduction: Rexford Tugwell and the case for welfare planning - Benoît Pouvreau: Eugène Claudius-Petit's regional planning policy - Dorian Bianco: Planning is a redemption. The contribution of Lewis Mumford to Jean-François Gravier's planning model - Dirk van den Heuvel: A Country Planning Its Change: Jaap Bakema and the Rise and Fall of the Dutch Welfare State - Stéphane Gaessler: Regional planning in Soviet Russia and the influence of Western welfare policies (1945-1970) - Mikkel Thelle & Anne Brædder: A problem of an abstractfuture or polluted presence ? Environment, welfare, and planning in Denmark - Dorian Bianco: Tropicalizing Danish architecture ? The projects and realizations of Ulrik Plesner in Sri Lanka and the case of tropical modernism (1958-1987) - Mikkel Høghøj & Anne Corlin: Designing social life: visions for 'community' in Danish social housing architecture - Elodie Bitsindou: The Suburban Ideal: A Historical Model of Planning for the Mixed Economy of Welfare.
