Scheming : a social history of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 /

Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Damer, Seán (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Series:Edinburgh scholarship online.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Public housing > Scotland > Glasgow > History > 20th century.
Logement social > Écosse > Glasgow > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Public housing
Scotland > Glasgow
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ntroduction
  • Mosspark : homes fit for heroes?
  • Hamiltonhill : pioneering slum-clearance scheme
  • West Drumoyne : blue-collarland
  • Blackhill : out of the slums
  • Craigbank : amateur dramatics?
  • South Pollok : "The Bundy"
  • Alarums and excursions
  • Appendix 1: Balloting for a council house
  • Appendix 2: Methodological notes.

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