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Shortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic''s Award 2023

Architecture and Retrenchment explores the neoliberal turn' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.

There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous Swedish Model and now home to Europe''s fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.

With close feminist analysis running throughout and drawing from oral hi

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 6/27/2024
      ISBN13: 9781350365681, 978-1350365681
      ISBN10: 1350365688
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shortlisted for the Architects Sweden Critic''s Award 2023

      Architecture and Retrenchment       explores the neoliberal turn' in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state.

      There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous Swedish Model and now home to Europe''s fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.

      With close feminist analysis running throughout and drawing from oral hi

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