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Searching for Innovative Design: Architectural Competitions in the Silvering Swedish Welfare State
Journal of Housing For the Elderly, 2015The new millennium has seen an increased interest in appropriate housing for the senior part of the Swedish population, defined as those aged 65 years and older. In 2010, the Swedish government launched a 2-year program called “Growing Old, Living Well” that targeted the living conditions of not only older people with few or some needs for homecare ...
Jonas E. Andersson, Magnus Rönn
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A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State
20081. Making Citizenship Meaningful in the 21st Century Part I: Social Economy Actors 2. The Future of Cooperatives in Post-Industrial Societies 3. The Development and Future of the Social Economy in Sweden Part II: Major Issues for the Welfare State 4. Balancing Profit and Social Goals in Public/Private Partnerships 5. Work Environment, Service Quality &
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Welfare or Warfare?:Civil defence in Danish urban welfare architecture
2020This chapter presents a selection of separate cases of Danish urban civil defence architecture, all of them constructed in ordinary welfare state institutions for living, working, learning, recreation, and convalescing. It illustrates that through civil defence, the Danish state planned to not only control but also protect, and care for, its citizens ...
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Multiple Welfare-Robots Architecture of Smart House for Security Assistance of Daily Activities
2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Safety for Robotics (ISR), 2018To tackle behavioral assistance for elderly care and disabled care in daily life, our laboratory rollout five welfare robots: walking support robot, walking rehabilitation robot, intelligent wheelchair robot, excretory support robot and handling robot. By integrating the multi-robots architecture and distributed sensor network, we proposes smart house ...
Donghui Zhao +6 more
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The Swedish Welfare-Warfare Nexus and the New Security Architecture
2012This chapter deals with security threats primarily associated with foreign or international affairs — different from, for example, community safety and policing. It gives a great deal of space to the Cold War era, reflecting a firm belief that the Swedish welfare state gained much of its distinctive character through its specific linkages with warfare ...
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Designing Obedience: The Architecture and Landscape of Welfare Capitalism, 1880–1930
International Labor and Working-Class History, 1998When International Harvester executives announced their plans in 1904 to build a clubhouse for employees at the McCormick reaper works in Chicago, they hoped that the facility might lure workers away from the coarse pleasures enjoyed in the surrounding working-class neighborhoods.
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Ageing and Society, 2014
ABSTRACTIn 2012, three architectural competitions were held as part of the strategic programme ‘Living Well, Growing Old’, launched by the Swedish government in 2010. The intention was to use the innovative quality of the architectural competition in order to conceive future-oriented built environments for the ageing Swedish society. In Sweden, several
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ABSTRACTIn 2012, three architectural competitions were held as part of the strategic programme ‘Living Well, Growing Old’, launched by the Swedish government in 2010. The intention was to use the innovative quality of the architectural competition in order to conceive future-oriented built environments for the ageing Swedish society. In Sweden, several
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Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State
2019Space ...
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Yolanda Ortega Sanz is an architect and associate professor at Polytechnic School, Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, Spain; where she teaches architectural design. Ortega was educated at School of architecture in Barcelona and Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, Denmark.
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Yolanda Ortega Sanz is an architect and associate professor at Polytechnic School, Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, Spain; where she teaches architectural design. Ortega was educated at School of architecture in Barcelona and Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, Denmark.
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