TY - BOOK AU - Dorian Bianco PY - 2024 CY - Bruxelles, Belgium PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783034348447 TI - Planning as a welfare project T2 - International models, theories and policies from the mid-century to the present DO - 10.3726/b22115 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1478006 N2 - 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. KW - history of technics, tropical modernism, bioclimatic design, technocratism, open society, suburbs, welfare, economic planning, urban planning, postwar architecture, Environmental policies, political economy LA - English ER -