Sean Damer

Scheming

A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781474440578
• ISBN-10: 1474440576
• Artikelnr.: 59510091

Autorenporträt

Seán Damer is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught sociology in the Universities of Strathclyde, Trinity College, Dublin, Manchester, the West of Scotland and Glasgow. Since early retirement, he has turned to creative writing, published a novel, and is working on several films and television drama series.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Mosspark: Homes For for Heroes?
Chapter 3: Hamiltonhill: Pioneering Slum-Clearance Scheme
Chapter 4: West Drumoyne: Blue-Collarland
Chapter 5: Blackhill: Out of the Slums
Chapter 6: Craigbank: Amateur Dramatics?
Chapter 7: South Pollok: "The Bundy"
Chapter 8: Alarums and Excursions
Appendix 1: Balloting for a Council House
Appendix 2: Methodological Notes
Bibliography