Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration Including David Hockney

Including David Hockney

creating spaces and participating in counter-cultures

from historic to modern

North America and Europe

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Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period RIBA Contract Administration Including David HockneyIn 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