Editing Sheffield (section)

===Post-Second World War===
{{See also|Brutalism in Sheffield}}
[[File:Parkhill2.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Panorama of a brutalist housing estate|[[Park Hill, Sheffield|Park Hill flats]], an example of 1950s and 1960s council housing estates in Sheffield]]
In the 1950s and 1960s, many of the city's slums were demolished, and replaced with housing schemes such as the [[Park Hill, Sheffield|Park Hill flats]]. Large parts of the city centre were also cleared to make way for a new system of roads.<ref name="VICKERS"/> In February 1962, the city was devastated by the [[Great Sheffield Gale]]; winds of up to {{cvt|97|mph}} killed four people and damaged 150,000 houses, more than two-thirds of the city's housing stock at the time.<ref name="rmets">{{cite web |last=Eden |first=Philip |title=The Sheffield Gale of 1962 |url=https://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/hisnews1201.pdf |website=Royal Meteorological Society |access-date=1 February 2022 |archive-date=21 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121220023/https://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/hisnews1201.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Increased automation and competition from abroad resulted in the [[steel crisis|closure of many steel mills]]. The 1980s saw the worst of this run-down of Sheffield's industries, along with those of many other areas of the UK.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Ian&nbsp;R. |last2=Evans |first2=Karen |last3=Fraser |first3=Penny |title=A tale of two cities: global change, local feeling and everyday life in the North of England : a study in Manchester and Sheffield |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=1996 |pages=63–72 |chapter=The catastrophic decline of Sheffield's industrial district |isbn=0-415-13829-9}}</ref> The building of the [[Meadowhall Centre]] on the site of a former steelworks in 1990 was a mixed blessing, creating much-needed jobs but hastening the decline of the city centre. Attempts to regenerate the city were kick-started when the city hosted the 1991 [[Universiade|World Student Games]], which saw the construction of new sporting facilities such as the [[Sheffield Arena]], [[Don Valley Stadium]] and the [[Ponds Forge]] complex.<ref name="VICKERS"/>