This collective volume investigates the multi-scalar and international manifestations of planning models, projects and policies from the 1930s 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 perrspective - including study cases from France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sri Lanka, the URSS 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.
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Table of contents
- Figures VII
- Jean-Baptiste Minnaert
Preface XI - Acknoledgements XIII
- Dorian Bianco
Introduction: In Search of Welfare Planning 1
Part I A French Model of Welfare Planning?
- Benoît Pouvreau
Eugène Claudius-Petit's Regional Planning Policy 19 - Dorian Bianco
Planning is a Redemption: The Theoretical Contribution of Lewis Mumford to Jean-François Gravier's Planning Model 35
Part II The Internationalisation of Welfare Plannin Models: The Examples of the Netherlands and the USSR
- Dirk van den Heuvel
A Country Planning its Change: Jaap Bakema and the Rise and Fall of the Dutch Welfare State 59 - Stephane Gaessler
Regional and Urban Planning in Soviet Russia and the Influence of Western Welfare Policies (1945-1970) 79
Part III The Challenges of Environmental Welfare Planning
- Anne Braedder and Mikkel Thelle
Abstract Future or Polluted Presence? Environment, Welfare, and Planning in Denmark 103 - Dorian Bianco
Western-Based or Decolonised Welfare Planning? Ulrik Plesener's Role in Town Design for the Mahaweli Development Programme in Sri Lanka (1982-1987) 123
Part IV Smaller Scales of Welfare Planning: the Neighbourhood and the Single-Family Home
- Anne Corlin and Mikkel Høghøj
Designing Social Life: Visions for ‘Community’ in Danish Social Housing Architecture 147 - Élodie Bitsindou
The Suburban Ideal: a Historical Model of Planning for the Mixed Economy of Welfare 165