ipl-logo

The Welfare State Alan Colquhoun Analysis

626 Words3 Pages

The ‘welfare state’ as Alan Colquhoun presents it, and in terms of historical consequence, was part of the prevailing social and economic progression of rebuilding in many Western European nations emerging from World War II. The resolution towards a welfare state that many Western European nations assumed, illustrated a balanced approach to establishing and rebuilding a stable national economy, and to some degree reconciling a middle ground between the social policies of capitalism and communism. The development of the welfare state was characterized by the recognition of nation’s government’s necessity to assume responsibility and care for the social interest of the nation as a whole. This movement towards a welfare state also witnessed the concurrent rise of a different approach to planning, also based on a new approach to the national social policies. This new approach to planning featured an adoption of a more liberal democracy and the adherence of economic theories that hypothesized strategies that could prevent the periodic depressions that plagued Europe throughout the 19th century.
The implementation of state-sponsored housing programs, highlighted especially by the Swedish and Scandinavian models, proved to be an attractive model for urban planning throughout Western Europe. This development of public policy, …show more content…

The prevailing model for urban housing had been the eighteenth century perimeter block. The perimeter block featured a communal courtyard enclosed by perimeter housing. However, with the new ideologies advocated by many of the ideals of Modernism, the new housing projects began to slowly break and reform the existing model. The gradual disappearance of the enclosed courtyard, the development of linear bars of housing featuring free façade’s marked a shift in housing typologies that now featured a distinctly Modern

Open Document