![]() ![]() Footnote 2 The passage crystallizes several themes shared in the suburbanites’ memoirs: the joy of a new dwelling, an optimistic pioneer spirit, and the omnipresence of nature. The author of the above quote, who moved to Kontula suburb as a young mother in 1965, recalled an experientially and architecturally new kind of urban space 30 years later. The mass-produced suburbs, with their high-quality homes, playgrounds, shopping centers, and forest paths, became key environments in which the emerging welfare state and the peak years of urbanization were lived in the 1960s and the 1970s. Although the houses were high, there was a feeling that we lived amidst nature. There was space inside and outside, nature between the houses, windows opened onto wide views. Moving to a new home was a moment of celebration. Everything was new, the environment and services still unfinished. What an idyll! The cow pasture later became a sports field. On the other side of the house was small woodland and grazing cows. In January 1965, our family moved to Kontula father, mother, and two-and four-year-old children. Finally, the chapter shows that in addition to designers, by their actions inhabitants shaped and made meaningful suburban environments. It shows the importance of undefined land beyond the reach of planning for the wellbeing of suburbanites. The discussion demonstrates that their thus far largely unrecognized experiential and aesthetic qualities emerged in the reciprocity of no-nonsense architecture, developed and undeveloped natural settings, and inhabitants. With their up-to-date apartments and environments built from scratch, the suburbs were key places where modernizing welfare Finland was lived. ![]() By analyzing how first-generation suburbanites perceived and enacted their new environment, the chapter points out the multidimensionality of these seemingly monotonous environments. This chapter provides much-needed novel perspectives on the mass-produced suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s in Finland.
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