Editing Glasgow (section)

==Housing==
{{Main|Housing in Glasgow}}
[[File:Cairndow Avenue (geograph 3438679).jpg|thumb|left|Typical red sandstone Glasgow terrace]]
Glasgow is known for its [[tenements]]; the red and blond [[sandstone]] buildings are some of the most recognisable features of the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/victorian/trails_victorian_glasgow.shtml |publisher=BBC |title=Victorian Achievement: Victorian Glasgow |access-date=30 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514172952/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/victorian/trails_victorian_glasgow.shtml |archive-date=14 May 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> These were the most popular form of housing in 19th- and 20th-century Glasgow, and remain the most common form of dwelling in Glasgow today. Tenements are commonly bought by a wide range of social types and are favoured for their large rooms, high ceilings and original period features.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news |last=McLean |first=Jack |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20000813/ai_n13950376 |title=Tenement living is the life and always has been |work=Sunday Herald |access-date=24 July 2009 |date=13 August 2000}}{{dead link|date=March 2012}}</ref> The [[Hyndland]] area of Glasgow became the first tenement conservation area in the UK<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819050501/http://www.hyndl.demon.co.uk/hyndland/0mainindax.htm |archive-date=19 August 2011 |url=http://www.hyndl.demon.co.uk/hyndland/0mainindax.htm |title=Hyndland Local History |publisher=Hyndl.demon.co.uk |access-date=10 March 2016}}</ref> and includes some tenement houses with as many as six bedrooms.

Like many cities in the UK, Glasgow witnessed the construction of high-rise housing in [[tower block]]s in the 1960s, along with large [[overspill estate]]s on the periphery of the city, in areas like [[Pollok]], [[Nitshill]], [[Castlemilk]], [[Easterhouse]], [[Milton, Glasgow|Milton]] and [[Drumchapel]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sustainingtowers.org/SOA-hist-drivers.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311003256/http://www.sustainingtowers.org/SOA-hist-drivers.htm |url-status=dead |title=Drivers for high rise living |archive-date=11 March 2012}}</ref> These were built to replace the decaying inner-city tenement buildings originally built for workers who migrated from the surrounding countryside, the Highlands, and the rest of the United Kingdom, particularly Ireland, to feed the local demand for labour.<ref>{{cite book |author=Brendan O'Grady |title=Exiles and Islanders: The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4fZZeJqqRcC&pg=PA144 |year=2004 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP |isbn=978-0773527683 |page=144}}</ref> The massive demand at that time outstripped the pace of new building, and many originally fine tenements often became overcrowded and unsanitary.<ref>Worksall, Frank ''The Tenement&nbsp;– a way of life''. W & R Chambers Ltd Edinburgh 1972 {{ISBN|0550203524}}</ref> Many degenerated into infamous [[slum]]s, such as the Gorbals.

[[File:Hillsborough Road, Garrowhill (geograph 2912654).jpg|thumb|right|20th-century-style houses within the neighbourhood of Hillsborough Road]]

Efforts to improve this housing situation, most successfully with the City Improvement Trust in the late 19th century, cleared the slums of the old town areas such as the [[Trongate]], [[High Street (Glasgow)|High Street]] and [[Glasgow Cross]].<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web |last=MacInnes |first=Ranald |url=http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story.php?id=TGSEF11 |title=The Glasgow Story: Buildings and Cityscape&nbsp;– Public Housing |access-date=24 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112015435/http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story.php?id=TGSEF11 |archive-date=12 November 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Subsequent [[urban renewal]] initiatives, such as those motivated by the [[Bruce Report]], entailed the comprehensive demolition of slum tenement areas, the development of [[New towns in the United Kingdom|new towns]] on the periphery of the city, and the construction of tower blocks.

The policy of tenement demolition is now considered to have been short-sighted, wasteful and largely unsuccessful.<ref name=Gourlay>{{cite web |url=http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/springburn/spring066.htm |publisher=Glasgow Digital Library |title=Springburn Virtual Museum: Demolition of tenements in Gourlay Street, 1975 |access-date=12 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101103942/http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/springburn/spring066.htm |archive-date=1 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Many of Glasgow's worst tenements were refurbished into desirable accommodation in the 1970s and 1980s<ref name=Gourlay/> and the policy of demolition is considered to have destroyed many fine examples of a "universally admired architectural" style.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> The [[Glasgow Housing Association]] took ownership of the housing stock from the city council on 7 March 2003, and has begun a £96&nbsp;million clearance and demolition programme to clear and demolish many of the high-rise flats.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/News/Archives/2006/May/housingrevolutionannounced.htm |title=Glasgow announces a revolution in house-building |publisher=Glasgow.gov.uk |access-date=12 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105180936/http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/News/Archives/2006/May/housingrevolutionannounced.htm |archive-date=5 January 2009}}</ref>