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Scholars in architectural and urban history have, over the last
decade, been trying to come to terms with architecture's
'neoliberal turn' and its various impacts - from municipal policy
to the artistic imagination. However most scholarship has focussed
on generalizations, with very little work to date focussing on
specific cases. Architecture and Retrenchment brings one such case
to the fore - investigating the relation between architecture and
the Swedish Model of the welfare state. It tracks the response of
architecture to the gradual retrenchment and ultimate dismantling
of the Swedish welfare state - which was, in its heyday,
world-famous for its integration of architecture and the built
environment into the welfare system. Ultimately, neoliberal
economics prevailed, yet this book reveals how new architectural
strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the
agency of architecture in the newly reorganised society of the
1980s and 1990s. Through eight in-depth case-studies, the book
situates the often abstract, generalised discourse of neoliberalism
and privatisation in specific architectural sites, and provides an
original interpretation of how architecture, space, aesthetics, and
politics converged at the end of the twentieth century.
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most
sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades,
neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but
a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask
what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture
represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role
of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet
interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across
scales-from China, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, the
United States, Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Analyzing how
buildings and urban projects in different regions since the 1960s
have served in the implementation of concrete policies such as
privatization, fiscal reform, deregulation, state restructuring,
and the expansion of free trade, contributors reveal neoliberalism
as a process marked by historical contingency. Neoliberalism on the
Ground fundamentally reframes accepted narratives of both
neoliberalism and postmodernism by demonstrating how architecture
has articulated changing relationships between state, society, and
economy since the 1960s.
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