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Author Damer, Seán, author.

Title Scheming : a social history of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 / Seán Damer.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh scholarship online
Edinburgh scholarship online.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.
Contents Ntroduction -- Mosspark : homes fit for heroes? -- Hamiltonhill : pioneering slum-clearance scheme -- West Drumoyne : blue-collarland -- Blackhill : out of the slums -- Craigbank : amateur dramatics? -- South Pollok : "The Bundy" -- Alarums and excursions -- Appendix 1: Balloting for a council house -- Appendix 2: Methodological notes.
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Subject Public housing -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- History -- 20th century.
Public housing.
Scotland -- Glasgow.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Original 1474440568 9781474440561 (OCoLC)1030601252
Electronic version: Damer, Seán. Scheming. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 9781474440585 (OCoLC)1057237366
ISBN 9781474440585 (electronic book)
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