Education
Uppsala University.
Uppsala University.
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. Larsson"s role in the post-war planning of Stockholm and its new suburbs was internationally recognized. The American city planner Clarence Stein wrote that:
He was awarded several Swedish and foreign state orders.
Larsson came to be called his century"s foremost Swedish city builder and Stockholm politician.
Yngve Larsson was married to Elin (1884-1980), née Bonnier, and they had six children, including later professor Yngve A. A. Larsson. Thomas Julius Anton (1975).
Governing Greater Stockholm: A Study of Policy Development and System Change. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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The Social City: Middle-way approaches to housing and sub-urban governmentality in southern Stockholm, 1900-1945 (Postdoctoral fellows). Stockholm: Stockholms universitet.
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"Building a city and a metropolis: the planned development of Stockholm".
Journal of the American Institute of Planners (United States of America) 28 (4): 220–228. Larsson, Yngve; Pieter de Wolff.
Lauchlin Currie (1967). Royer Lectures. Berkeley, California: Institute of Business and Economic Research, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California.
Oser, Jacob (1967). Journal of Economic Issues 1 (3): 244–246.
JSTOR 4223854. Pass, David (1973). Vällingby and Farsta - from idea to reality: the new community development process in Stockholm. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
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Skårfors, Rikard (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.
Stein, Clarence (1998). Kermit C. Parsons, educated
The Writings of Clarence South. Stein: Architect of the Planned Community. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Governmental planning and political economy. "Reviewed work(s): Governmental Planning and Political Economy by Yngve Larsson. Pieter deWolff; Lauchlin Currie".
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.