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II. THE SWEDISH PEOPLE.
eral custom of town-dwellers to spend the summer in the country. This is plainly
attested by the numbers of those lighty built summer villas studded about in the
vicinity of the larger towns, and so characteristic of the Stockholm skärgård,
both of Saltsjön and of Lake Mälaren.
In recent times people have begun to realize more and more the
defects of the old regulation plans and the enactments of the year 1874;
it has become clearly apparent that the building problem in towns
refuses to be settled by rule of thumb; it is composed of a variety of
different factors, which it has been the mission of the new art of town
planning to take in hand and investigate, before a new district is given over
to building.
Saltsjöbaden, near Stockholm.
Unfortunately the rule-of-thumb plans have already succeeded in
doing-irreparable damage in almost all Swedish towns. It is nothing unusual
in the smaller towns to see the new five storey edifice alongside of the older
one or two storey house, and this in places where the population is too
small for this style of building. Another result is the high price of
building sites, which has rendered it imposssible to erect at a profit anything
1 For this purpose the larger towns have provided themselves with permanent bodies of .
officials working under the direction of competent architectural artists; Stockholm in 1909
instituted the Town Planning Commission. Sweden possesses a quite "up-to-date"
legislation in the Town Planning Act of 1907.
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