Abstract
THE methods employed in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden for improving urban and rural housing conditions, and in the United States of America and Canada for urban housing, are reviewed in a study entitled “Urban and Rural Housing” conducted by M. B. Helger, of the Swedish Social Board, which has been published by the Economic Intelligence Service of the League of Nations (Geneva: League of Nations. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 3s. 6d.). The study has special reference to the cost involved and the results obtained, mainly in the housing problems raised after the War of 1914–18, and the attempts at solving those problems up to the outbreak of hostilities in 1939. Separate chapters are devoted to each country, and figures are given showing the need for additional accommodation, the lack of modern conveniences in existing dwellings, and the number of existing dwellings which should be repaired, or demolished as unfit for further use. General aspects of the housing problem are discussed in an introductory chapter in which the two aspects—social and technical—of the problem are distinguished.
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Social and Technical Aspects of Housing. Nature 144, 1040–1041 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441040d0
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