Abstract
At the Danish Building Research Institute a team from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning is currently engaged in research into living conditions analysis and regional planning. Under Danish law the ordinary citizen is entitled to join actively in the planning process. The current project is designed to study how analysis of living conditions can be employed in such a process. The project is being conducted by Johannes M0llgaard and Niels Boje Groth in conjunction with ethnologists and a county authority. During the 1950s and 1960s living conditions in Scandinavia changed more rapidly than had ever previously been experienced. The role of the State grew in importance throughout the period in terms of economics and government controls. As this development took place, interest was expressed in measuring in the form of welfare analysis the effect of structural changes in society and of national policy programmes. It also led to interest in legitimizing the new field of activity by increasing the flow of information to the public. This development was reflected by two trends. First, the analyses of welfare and living conditions conducted within Scandinavia over the past decade. On the one hand these have been national analyses of welfare directed at sociopolitical problems, and, on the other, analyses of culture and of local community life studying such issues as the conditions of different ways of living and of life in more clearly defined local communities. The second trend concerns the experiment of involving the ordinary citizen more actively in the planning process. Elements have included voluntary experiments, demands by specific population groups, and statutory procedures for keeping the public informed. Both trends are closely related in a democratic context. In the field of welfare research, the demand for greater participation is directly reflected in the definition of welfare and living conditions. A critical view has been adopted of the idea of
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