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

• Main Authors: Abrams, Lynn (Author), Kearns, Ade (Author), Hazley, Barry (Author), Wright, Valerie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge Milton Park 2020
• Edition: Print Book, English, 2020
• Series: Built environment city studies
• Subjects: High-rise apartment buildings > History 20th century > Great Britain; Housing > History 20th century > Great Britain; Glasgow (Scotland). Corporation > Great Britain; History > Great Britain
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• Physical Description: vi, 134 pages illustrations (black and white) 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780367501655

In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of World War II, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the hundreds 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