Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 Sustainability taking us through the houses

taking us through the houses of 13 artists

elegant town houses and detached homes as well as interesting conversions and garden rooms

From the "inside-out" Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Nouméa

Provides a model example of corporate modernisation following the impact of leasehold reform

Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 Sustainability taking us through the housesWhen 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