Urban Renewal Glasgow - building the city, or killing the civic?
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
In this discussion, chaired by Professor Richard Brook (Lancaster University), panellists will reflect on the major renewal initiatives of the 1960s and ask what they did for the city. Most Scottish and northern English cities experienced renewal in similar ways - inner-urban motorways, mass housing schemes, new shopping centres, vertical separation, university expansion - often partially realised and derided for the damage they wrought upon urban centres. This panel considers the motivations, successes and errors of mid-century planning and architecture and wonders what the long-term legacy will be...
Name | Glasgow City Heritage Trust |
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