ABSTRACT
In the planning process of Skarholmen, architecture and the built environment seems to have been handled like a flexible entity that had to relate to forces more connected to the flow of private capital than to ideas about society. It was not architectural ideologies, as earlier in Vallingby Centrum, that shaped the new suburb: rather, it was the interests given power by the corporatist model. Mass motoring came to Sweden after the Second World War and became established more rapidly than in most other European countries. By the end of the 1960s motoring was on top of the political and public agenda. Strong national and international forces pushed for the development. The building industry also put pressure on the official 'Investigation of the Industrialisation of Buildings'. Skarholmen is situated next to an intersection of three motorways that became the backbone for the whole area and defined the basic structure.
