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Rosengård is a typical Plattenbau district of Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, and is often chosen to exemplify the dreary suburbs of the Swedish Million Programme, other examples being Rinkeby in Stockholm and Ryd in Linköping. In Malmö, Rosengård actually belongs to a girdle of suburbs, the others being Holma, Kroksbäck, Lindängen, and Lindeborg. Plattenbau is the German word for a building whose structure is constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs, often found in central and eastern Europe. ...
Malmö ( listen) is the largest of the cities in the province of Scania (Skåne) in southern Sweden; and the third largest of the cities in Sweden. ...
In the period 1965–74 the infamous Million Programme was implemented in Sweden, with the aim of building 100,000 dwellings each year for 10 years. ...
Rinkeby is a part of the city of Stockholm in Sweden. ...
The Stockholm City Hall Stockholm listen is the capital and the largest city of Sweden. ...
Ryd is a residential area in Linköping, Sweden, best known for housing the bulk of the Linköpings Universitet (LiU) student body. ...
The Linköping Cathedral. ...
The population of Rosengård is dominated by immigrants, consisting of a host of different nationalities, e g Iran, many Arab countries, Turkey, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Bosnia and Herzegovina (also variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ...
Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia – Kosovo and Metohia (UN administration) – Vojvodina – Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area – Total – % water 88,361 km² n/a Population – Total (2002) (without Kosovo) – Density 7. ...
Now trees have grown up. Initially, there was nothing to sooth the perpetual winds from the Scanian plains. The illustration above is from Kroksbäck in Malmö, photographed some 40 years after its construction. These neighbourhoods are all quite similar: They consist of one or several groups of high, multi-storey apartment blocks, sometimes in bright colors, sometimes with raw concrete facades, with lots of 3-storey apartment buildings for tenants with somewhat more money. Schools, as well as commercial centra, are characterized by 1-storey blocks. Plattenbau distrikt of Kroksbäck in Malmö, photographed approximately 40 years later. ...
Scania (Skåne) is the southernmost historical Province (landskap) of Sweden. ...
Malmö ( listen) is the largest of the cities in the province of Scania (Skåne) in southern Sweden; and the third largest of the cities in Sweden. ...
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