TOWARDS THE "PEOPLE’S HOME". First housing districts in Stockholm

The label «People’s home» coined by Swedish Social-Democrats expresses the first step towards the 1930s, 40s and early 50s, which would make Sweden a model for war-ravaged Europe. But “people” and “home” attracted planners, architects, co-operatives and politicians well before. The aim is to trace the origins of their social concerns in first initiatives of land policies and mass-housing by discussing spatial experiments with housing districts on Stockholm’s fringe in the 1910s and 20s. The attention here goes to two valuable examples: Röda Bergen (1909- 1929) and Vasastaden (1913-1924) situated in two nearby North-West hilly sites of Stockholm.