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- Title
Stadspark, landskap och bebyggelse i Angereds centrum - en stigberoende planhistoria.
- Authors
Dahlgren, Anders
- Abstract
The article studies the suburb of Angered, located ten kilometres north east of the city of Gothenburg, and principally Angered Centre, the service and infrastructure node of the suburb. Urban plans for the development of Angered were drawn up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and Angered Centre was built during the second half of the 1970s. Angered Centre is studied from a planning-history (planhistoriskt) perspective, by which the investigation focuses on the developmental history of the master plan and detailed development plan for the suburb centre. Instead of focusing on the domestic and commercial buildings of Angered Centre, as would be common for a planning-history study, the article places Angered park at the centre of attention. During the post-war era, landscape architecture became integrated within the largescale urban planning that was conducted in the agricultural and natural landscape on the outskirts of existing cities (Walker 1993). As the American landscape architect and theoretician James Corner has pointed out, the landscape is not a passive element in the physical context, but can have an agency affecting its surroundings (Corner 1999). The article shows that this was certainly the case at Angered Centre, where the conceptual understanding of the landscape and the relationship between the park, the centre buildings and the landscape has been constant, continuing to serve as a developmental framework until the present day. Thus, one of the results of this investigation is that the surrounding landscape and urban park have produced a path dependent effect on Angered Centre, an effect that has resisted the changes in the architectural paradigms of the buildings, from modernism and postmodernism. Using mainly archive material from Gothenburg City Planning Administration, the planning-history investigation shows that the park and its surroundings have been planned and developed according to the path identified in the 1968 master plan (generalplan). Where there is an ambition to break path dependency in this kind of suburb, the article argues that one needs not only to change the buildings and their contents, but also to reconceptualise the landscape and reconsider the relationship between the built environment and the landscape.
- Subjects
GOTEBORG (Sweden); SUBURBS; BUILT environment; LANDSCAPE architecture; AMERICAN architects; URBAN parks; URBAN landscape architecture; URBAN planning
- Publication
Bebyggelsehistorisk Tidskrift, 2019, Issue 76, p27
- ISSN
0349-2834
- Publication type
Article