Den offentliga kulturmiljövården och miljonprogrammets bostadsbebyggelse

Abstract

The intention with this essay has been to examine how the public instances working with cultural heritage in Sweden deals with the housing built under the period of the so called miljonprogrammet (“the million programme”) during 1965-75. The interest in the built environment from the 1960s and 70s has increased in the last ten years within the field of cultural heritage. The purpose with this study is to examine which cultural values that are assigned to the housing of the million programme. The purpose is also, as mentioned before, to study how the field of cultural heritage deals with this type of built environment. Through a minor study performed in the neighbourhood Lövgärdet in north-eastern Gothenburg will the purposes of the study be examplified and connected to a specific place. A certain focus is also given to the discursive images connected to the million programme, and how the work performed by public instances connected to cultural heritage in simliar places is expressed. The source material for this essay is in the form of interviews and conversations performed with representatives from different instances of the public cultural environment-sector. Official reports and documents produced within the field of cultural heritage will also work as a important part of the source material in this study. The work that has concerned heritage issues and have been performed in the neighbourhood Lövgärdet is described and studied in this essay together with a description and study of the work with the housing of the million programme in Gothenburg and Stockholm. Within the analysis part of the essay has the discourse analysis been used as a theoretical and methodological tool.