Standardizing play in the century of the car: the building information cards as shapers of the ideal urban childhood in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s

Figures & data

Figures 1–2. RT card on swings. RT 897.15, 1961. Keinut, metallirakenteiset, asuntotalon. [Metal swings in residential yards]. Rakennustietosäätiö RTS sr [Building Information Foundation RTS sr], Helsinki.

Table 1. RT cards analyzed for this article.

	Published (year)	Topic	Instruction card (I)/ Regulation card (R)/ Product card (P)	Out of use
1.	1961	Metal swings in residential yards	I	1994
2.	1967	Children’s sandbox	I	1994
3.	1969	Children's playgrounds, general planning aspects	I	1978
4.	1969	Housing, activities, and space requirements	I	1978
5.	1972	Children’s playgrounds, equipment	I	1996
6.	1972	Leisure-time facilities in housing blocks	I	1994
7.	1978	Planning of playgrounds	R	2002
8.	1970s	Finnola Playground Equipment / Oy Pohjoiskalotti-Nordkalotten Ab	P	not known
9.	1979	Lappset play and outdoor equipment / Oy Pohjoiskalotti-Nordkalotten Ab	P	1982

Figure 3. Suggestion for organizing a playground network. 1. play space on the grounds of the block of flats, 2. Block playground, 3. Neighbourhood playground 4. Natural/wild area ••• Safe pedestrian access. RT 995.33, 1969. Lasten leikkipaikat, yleisiä suunnitteluohjeita. [Children’s playgrounds, general planning aspects]. Rakennustietosäätiö RTS sr [Building Information Foundation RTS sr], Helsinki.

Figures 4–6. (4) Two boys standing on the barbed wire fence between the yards in Kallio neighbourhood, Helsinki, in 1970, Simo Rista, Helsinki City Museum. CC BY 4.0.; (5) Children climbing on a rug beating rack and playing in the yard of an apartment building in the neighbourhood of Roihuvuori, Helsinki, in 1970, Eeva Rista, Helsinki City Museum. CC BY 4.0; and (6) Young boys engaged in street play during the spring of 1962, Teuvo Kanerva, Finnish Heritage Agency [Museovirasto, Historian kuvakokoelma]. CC BY 4.0.