Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period

by Valerie Wright, Barry Hazley, Ade Kearns, et al.

Book Overview

In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367501651
• ISBN13: 9780367501655
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"