Glasgow (Built Environment City Studies)

In 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 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, Glasgow 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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Abrams, Lynn

Wright, Valerie

Hazley, Barry

Kearns, Ade

Sociology

Routledge

In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of World War II, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the hundreds 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 peoples' 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, Glasgow 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.

Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955

Deindustrialisation is the central feature of Scotland's economic, social and political history since the 1950s, when employment levels peaked in the established sectors of coal, shipbuilding, metals and textiles, along with the railways and docks. This book moves analysis beyond outmoded tropes of economic decline and industrial catastrophe, and instead examines the political economy of deindustrialisation with a sharp eye on cultural and social dimensions that were not uniformly negative, as often assumed. Viewing the long-term process of deindustrialisation through a moral economy framework, the book carefully reconstructs the impact of economic change on social class, gender relations and political allegiances, including a reawakened sense of Scottish national identity. In doing so, it reveals deindustrialisation as a more complex process than the customary body count of closures and job losses suggests, and demonstrates that socioeconomic change did not just happen, but was influenced by political agency.

Business & Money

PHILLIPS, Jim

Tomlinson, Jim

Economics

Edinburgh University Press

Power Pressure Cooker XL Cookbook: The Quick and Easy Pressure Cooker Cookbook - Simple, Quick and Healthy Electric Pressure Cooker Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Kitchen Appliances

Fighting Dreams Productions INC

The Prince of Washington County.A Historical Novel,four generations of family history follow three Jewish immigrant brothers; farmers who came to America in 1840. Avoiding the threat of war in Bavaria, Germany, and the Russian invasion. Travel with them as the book takes you on an exciting journey, full of interesting characters and through three Wars. Peer into the lives of this a family who carved a rich life for themselves through hard work, and ingenuity, holding close to family values, and their faith in God and man.

The Prince of Washington County: A Historical Romantic Novel (Book 1)

History

Americas

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

NICU Nursing Stories: A Day in the Life of a NICU Nurse

Medical Books

Nursing

Cognella Academic Publishing

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