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Fig. 3. Changes in forest area 1938-1960, based on air photo interpretation. 1 : Forests in 
1938. 2: New forests since 1938. 3: Single trees and bushes grown since 1938. 
The building activity, divided into three periods, is shown in fig. 4. All new 
buildings since 1913 are represented, whatever their purposes, but only a 
few are not built for resort purposes. The building of summer cottages on the 
peninsula started at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1913, according to 
the economic map, there were almost two hundred houses outside the old town. 
During the period 1913-1938 nearly four hundred summer cottages were 
built in the part of the eastern forests seen on the map, about one hundred at 
Falsterbo and fifty at Skanor. During the period 1938-1955 the building acti 
vity in the eastern area was about the same as before, while it greatly in 
creased in the western area. Among many very fashionable villas, we also 
find the first examples of a high degree of exploitation by building groups of 
many standardized houses on small areas. The last period from 1955 to 1960 
is only one third of the previous one. Yet slightly more than two hundred cot 
tages were built in the eastern area, thus showing a higher building activity 
than before. In the western area the activity was also higher. 
In total two thousand houses have been built since 1913. A tendency to 
spread out the houses over a larger area than the number of new houses 
requires, is also visible. Earlier all houses were placed in the forests, but many 
are also built in open, formerly cultivated fields. In the last year new cottages 
have been built close to the fences around the remaining heath. 
In fig. 5 a photo sequence is reproduced, which consists of three air photos, 
together with key maps, of the same small area. This is a different method of 
showing some of the changes and one which was used earlier by the author