The Welfare City in Transition

Katrine Lotz, Jesper Pagh, Ellen Marie Braae, Rosalina Wenningsted-Torgard & Tomas Wikström Form for welfare. How can architecture, space, planning and design contribute to improving well-being today? What new problems and opportunities arise in the attempt to formulate solutions for future welfare through form? New book about welfare design and how to design welfare. The anthology gathers results, knowledge and discussions from the research project Form til Velfærd. With contributions of: Kjeld Vindum, Peter Thule Kristensen, Jens Kvorning, Jørgen Møller, Jesper Pagh, Kirsten Marie Raahauge, Marie Stender, Katrine Lotz, Ellen Marie Braae, Rosalina Wenningsted-Torgard, Tomas Wikström, Kirsten Birk Hansen, Deane Simpson, Loa Kristine Teglgaard Christensen, Camilla Hedegaard Møller, Mette Jerl Jensen, Maja de Neergaard, Masashi Kajita, Heidi Jacobsgaard Schobel and Heidi Svenningsen Kajita and Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen.

Kristoffer Weiss (ed.) Paradoxically, the Danish welfare city has proved both a historical success and – perhaps – an even greater failure in the late modern era. While cities like Copenhagen and Aarhus bask in international attention and admiration over the high quality of life they offer, cities in general are facing serious economic imbalances and long-term structural challenges that hamper their economic and sustainable development. Within a short period of time, the Danish ‘welfare cities’have developed into ‘well-off cities’ for the affluent. Critical City is a debate book that uses essays, images and interviews with leading architects and urbanists to discuss the Danish welfare city anno 2019.