Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 Sustainability and Grasmere to Canton

and Grasmere to Canton

Publication Date: April 2023

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Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 Sustainability and Grasmere to CantonWhen the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city's notorious slums after the First World War, they wound up reproducing a Victorian class structure. How did this occur? Scheming traces the issue to class based paternalism that caused the reification of the local class structure in the bricks and mortar of the new council housing estates. Sen Damer provides a sustained critique of the