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 Comprehensive Development Area's (C.D.A's).
The council intended to use comprehensive redevelopment, which basically consisted of knocking down the old tenements (evidently because of their impossible condition) and replacing them with high rise flats.
The advantages of these flats, it was argued, were that they took up minimal amounts of space, while being occupied by the maximum amount of people. They also were to provide easy access to jobs/shops, provide modern amenities. Of course, they were also cheap to build.
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.
