Urban decay and regeneration in Glasgow

After the climax of the Second World War, the council in Glasgow decided to tackle the ascending problem of slum housing and overpopulation, known as urban decay, examples and clues as to urban decay include:

• Slum housing; with outside toilets, no hot water, central heating and overcrowding

• Many buildings have been poorly constructed, their roofs now leak, stonework crumbles, and windows are draughty

• Derelict buildings are prone to vandalism

These problems were especially prone to area’s surrounding and within the inner city, areas such as Partick and Gorbals. To tackle this problem, they decided to employ some urban re-development tactics. People that lived in the problem-stricken areas were relocated to areas on the outskirts of the city, areas like Milton, Easterhouse and Castlemilk, areas that didn’t end up solving as many problems as had been expected. There were 29 of these Compreh

Of course, in the true selfless style of councils everywhere, the obvious and most important reason for this clearance was for economic advantage.

Two ‘advantages’ where the respective planners definitely failed was to provide ‘panoramic’ views, of course, these views were themselves obtained from protrusive eyesores across the landscape of Glasgow. The other point where the planners didn’t make the grade was that of keeping the community spirit alive, providing a sense of good neighbouring and of kinship, but no, the fact that people you may have known all of your life from the tenements may now live in a completely different estate didn’t encourage this sense of community at all; And what’s more is that the people who had been dragged miles across the city to live in these high-rise flats did not, for some reason, feel obliged to make acquaintances with their new ‘neighbours.’

ensive Development Area’s (C.D.A’s)

The altitude of the

Some topics in this essay:
Area’s CDA’s, World War, Partick Gorbals, , Easterhouse Castlemilk, urban decay, employ urban, community spirit, slum housing,