Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration The conservation of our Modern

The conservation of our Modern architectural heritage is a subject of vehement debate

It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture   Architecture is bound up with our daily lives but

only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes

ISBN: 9780241631782

Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration The conservation of our ModernIn 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