Editing Million Programme (section)

== Design ==
The new Million Programme residential areas were greatly inspired by early suburban neighbourhoods such as [[Vällingby]] and [[Enskede-Årsta|Årsta]]. One of the main aims behind the planning of these residential areas was to create "good democratic citizens". The means of achieving this were to build at high quality with a good range of services including schools, nurseries, churches, public spaces, libraries, and meeting places for different groups of households. A principal aim was to mix and integrate different groups of households through the spatial mixing of tenures. Most of the apartments were of the "standard three room apartment" (two bedroom apartment) type (Swedish: ''normaltrea'') of 75 m²&nbsp;(810 sq ft), planned for a model family of two adults and two children. The second type of apartments were the "student blocks" or "student suburbs" that were planned and built in the cities having large universities, like [[Stockholm]], [[Lund]], [[Uppsala]], [[Linköping]] and [[Umeå]]. Almost 150,000 new "student apartments" were built in specially designated "student suburbs" in order to meet the needs of the rapidly increasing university student population. These student apartments were usually 1-bedroom 1-bathroom and common kitchen type dorms that were clustered together in a large suburb or neighbourhood. The ownership of the apartments were leased out to "housing companies" like [[Heimstaden AB]] who rented it out at below market rates, the rents being subsidized by the government.

The Million Programme is sometimes equated with the construction of concentrated tower blocks. However, these areas constituted about one third of the programme's apartments. Areas with lower apartment blocks and areas with one-family houses made up about the remaining two thirds of the number of total units.<ref>[http://www.sigtunahem.se/Om-SigtunaHem/Historik/Allmannyttan4/ Sigtunahem om allmännyttan och miljonprogrammet.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113090756/http://www.sigtunahem.se/Om-SigtunaHem/Historik/Allmannyttan4/}}</ref>