Yngve Larsson

Yngve Larsson (1881-1977)

Gustaf Richard Yngve Larsson (born December 13, 1881 in Sundsvall, died December 16, 1977 in Stockholm) was a Swedish Ph. D., Municipal commissioner (Borgarråd), Member of Parliament and statesman.

He was a marked modernist and was for 22 years a leading vice Mayor of Stockholm, in charge of urban development, and politically leading behind several of the city's largest urban development projects of the 20th century, including Slussen, Stockholm Metro and the major redevelopment of Norrmalm borough in central Stockholm.

During the Second World War, Larsson was also a leading nordic anti-nazi, and a board member of Samfundet Nordens Frihet and chairman of Svensk-Norska föreningen. He was awarded several Swedish and foreign state orders. In 1946, King Haakon VII appointed Larsson as a Commander with Star of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav "for particularly outstanding merits of the Norwegian Resistance during the war." He also received the French Legion of Honour, Swedish Order of the Polar Star and Order of Vasa and the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

Larsson came to be called his century's foremost Swedish city builder and Stockholm politician.

References

• Yngve Larsson at Swedish Wikipedia

Literature in English

• Mats Deland (2001). The Social City : Middle-way approaches to housing and sub-urban golvernmentality in southern Stockholm, 1900-1945. Stockholm: Stockholms universitet. ISBN 91-88882-17-9. http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_su_diva-1240-2__fulltext.pdf. 
• Yngve Larsson, Pieter de Wolff, Lauchlin Currie (1967). Governmental planning and political economy. Royer Lectures. Berkeley, California: Institute of Business and Economic Research, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California. 
• Yngve Larsson (1962). "Building a city and a metropolis : the planned development of Stockholm". Journal of the American Institute of Planners (USA) 28 (4): 220–228. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a790515073. 
• Jacob Oser (1967). "Reviewed work(s): Governmental Planning and Political Economy by Yngve Larsson; Pieter deWolff; Lauchlin Currie". Journal of Economic Issues 1 (3): 244–246. JSTOR 4223854. 
• Rikard Skårfors (1999). Beslutsfattandets dilemma: planarbete och opinionsyttringar rörande trafikleder i Stockholm 1945-1975. Working papers in transport and communication history, 1104-6988 ; 1999:2. Uppsala: Uppsala University. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-2450.