Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 Sustainability Ramps and Escalators brings together

Ramps and Escalators brings together a wide range of current research for easy reference

taking us through the houses of 13 artists

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

Publication Date: April 2023

provocative work which will set the standard for debate within the architectural community and spearhead intellectual discourse around the state of the industry and its role in the future

Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 Sustainability Ramps and Escalators brings togetherWhen 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