Glasgow (3) Flashcards
The tenements (1800-1940s) - good and bad
Good- warm, friendly, centrally located, community spirit
Bad- rats, disease, overcrowding, no running water, no central heating or inside toilets
Why was the east end of Glasgow chosen?
- Was the centre of shipping export and import (along river Clyde)
- industrial area, coal and iron ore were found so steel industry was set up
- large population attracted from rural areas - housing in tenements
High rise flats (1950s-1960s)
Were cheap homes for returning soldiers Criticised for being too like rabbit hutches Ugly style of building Many tenements were torn down Families moved to council houses
High rise flats - good and bad
Good - modern, pleased to move in, heating, inside bathrooms, clean, no rats or overcrowding
Bad - decayed after a few years, became damp, condensation, cold draughts increased heating bills, mental and physical illnesses increased, vandalism
1970s-1980s-1990s- renovation and renewal
Cheap building hadn’t worked so council started to do more people planning decisions
GEAR was set up, covered Carlton to Bridgeton. Was set up to regenerate the eat end of Glasgow
What does GEAR stand for
Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal Project
GEARS 6 main aims
- New job opportunities -trained people in new skills and opened 200 training schemes
- Business development package -attracted new companies and ver 5,000 new jobs were created by 1987 from new industrial estates
- Improving quality of life - building new leisure facilities for the locals to enjoy as well as new housing
- Improving the environment - reducing pollution and cleaning buildings as well as creating more outdoor spaces
- Building new houses - modernising remaining tenements, making the single roomed flats larger with inside bathrooms. Also new estates of flats and houses were built
- Involving community in making new decisions
1993 Queen Elizabeth square flats
Demolished remaining high rise flats and new housing estates were built
