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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.
This 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 well-being. With discussions on interior design and consumption, gender roles, children, the elderly, privacy, isolation, social networks and nuisance, Glasgow examines the connections between architectural design, planning decisions and housing experience to offer some timely and prescient observations on the success and failure of this very modern housing solution at a moment when high flats are simultaneously denigrated in the social housing sector while being built afresh in the private sector.
Glasgow is aimed at an academic readership, including postgraduate students, scholars and researchers. It will be of interest to social, cultural and urban historians particularly interested in the United Kingdom.
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Introduction: The fluctuating fortunes of high rise
Embracing high rise in the post-war period
Retreat from high rise
Removal and return of high rise
A retrospective study of the postwar high rise experience
Inside: making homes - privacy and communality
Modern family homes
Modern interiors
Space and adaptation
Consumption, décor and taste
Privacy versus communality
Maintenance and security
Conclusions
Outside: Surviving and Thriving on Estates
Estate planning, amenity and social life
Life on the periphery: a lack of foresight
Miracle in the Gorbals? City centre living
'You've to go into the city': social facilities
Children and play: 'nae use for the bairns'
Safety and delinquency
Places to play
Conclusions
Communities: Identity, Change and Neighbourly Relations
Eventless places? Neighbourly interactions on high rise estates
Narratives of community loss and decline
New neighbourly relations
Conclusions: retelling the history of community life
Conclusions: plural histories of multi-storey living
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