Glasgow

Name: Glasgow
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

GlasgowHigh-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period\nAuthor(s): Lynn Abrams, Ade Kearns, Barry Hazley, Valerie Wright\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138317093, 978-1138317093\nSynopsis\nIn 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. \n\nThis book uniquely focuses on the people's experience of this modern approach to housing, drawing on oral histories and archival materials to reflect on the long-term narrative and significance of high-rise homes in the cityscape. It positions them as places of identity formation, intimacy and we.