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Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities the Post-War Period
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Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities the Post-War Period
Current price: $66.99
Barnes and Noble
Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities the Post-War Period
Current price: $66.99
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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,
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.