Glasgow- slum clearance CDA
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- Glasgow- Slum clearance (1957-74)
- tackling slum clearance and traffic congestion
- Hutchesontown
- 1987- replacement housing built in 1960s was demolished
- originally contained old, crowded, 4 storey tenement houses
- rents were low and landlords spent little caring for buildings
- CDA policy=> 68.3% drop in population between 1961-1971
- failure
- bad design and contrustion
- slum clearance
- constructed high tower blocks, and peripheral council buildings
- built far from the site of former homes
- community structure destroyed+ not replaced
- 5 new town and council estates were built on outskirts
- 500k people dispersed to new towns eg. Cumbernauld
- unpopular- poor design and rushed construction => damp + vermin
- lack basic amenities
- Rejected by the people- no agreement with residents
- constructed high tower blocks, and peripheral council buildings
- Traffic congestion
- M8 constructed in late 1960s
- house clearance
- similar effect as slum clearance
- thousands of families had to rehouse
- government funding comprehensive redevelopment
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