ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses and discusses how shifting ideologies of welfare have left – and continue to leave – an imprint on and inform the built fabric and the organisation of space in the suburban new towns that were built in Norway at the height of the welfare era. Beginning in Tveita, the chapter will examine how the mental and material inheritances of welfare and the mutual relation between them are – and have been – conceived, managed and passed on by historians, planners and politicians. Tveita, one of the most thoroughly planned residential new towns on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, has been chosen as the point of reference because this residential mass-housing neighbourhood is considered to be a highly representative example of welfare planning in Norway. Emphasis will be put on the rhetoric of planning and heritage authorities and how that corresponds to the actions planned and taken at Tveita.
