Vall, Natasha ORCID: 0000-0002-8664-2762 (2015) Two Swedish modernisms on English housing estates: cultural transfer and visions of urban living 1945-1969. Contemporary European History, 24 (4). pp. 517-536. ISSN 0960-7773 (Print), 1469-2171 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777315000314)

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Abstract

This article examines the transfer of Swedish concepts of urban modernity to British cities after 1945. It shows how an affinity between design and architecture elites facilitated the transfer of key concepts that were mediated in cities. Moreover, it argues that the often contested transfer of Swedish modern architecture and design to northern English cities initially meshed with municipal ambitions to improve working-class housing and culture. Thereafter the influence of Swedish modern was continued in altered form by the preponderance of Swedish prefabrication techniques In the construction of new poured concrete and high-rise estates during the 1960s. These aspirations to improve the urban environment with Scandinavian examples of good living often magnified the difficulties of modernising the industrial conurbations of the north.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Special Issue 4: Urban Societies in Europe.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	modernism, design, architecture, housing, comparative, European, history, urban
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Last Modified:	16 Oct 2024 14:33
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48314

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