Housing in Glasgow
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Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings. Building styles reflect historical trends, such as rapid population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries,
A typical Glasgow tenement block
The now demolished Red Road estate came to symbolise the mistakes of the city's 1960s housing policy.
Gorbals
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The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde. By the late 19th century, it had become densely populated; rural migrants and immigrant
Housing in Glasgow
…many tenements often became overcrowded and unsanitary. Parts of inner city areas like Anderston, Cowcaddens, the Garngad, Townhead and particularly the Gorbals, as well as parts of the industrialised East End (Bridgeton, the Calton, Camlachie, the Gallowgate) deteriorated into slums in which disease thrived…
Main Street, Gorbals, looking south, 1868 by Thomas Annan
Main Street, Gorbals. Looking north, also 1868 by Thomas Annan
Main Street, Gorbals, 1911
Eglinton Street, Gorbals, 1939