Society, Politics & Law
Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
...class Glaswegians have been subjected to large-scale displacement, often termed ‘decanting’, through slum clearance; huge numbers of people were moved across the city throughout the inter-war and post-war periods and – in increasing numbers after 1945 - beyond the city boundaries. Long established working class communities were broken-up, a shared sense of the past...
