| Comment | If we went back in time and asked the planners if they had built it properly they would say something like "yes, we built it properly, but the residents are not acting according to how we have planned it".
The reason the likes of Easterhouse was built without amenities is because the planners thought that people would 'just' live there and then would travel in and out the city centre for amenities. Their vision was that the city centre would be the active hub. They never intended the housing estates be anything more than housing estates. It probably baffled the hell out of them when people started demanding local amenities instead of just travelling to the central hub they were trying to design.
They eventually capitulated and built local amenities, but funny enough, in the long term, it rebalanced. People began using the city centre as intended and stopped using the local amenities. Most of the things they built, community centres, pubs, small shopping arcades, all have since shut down through lack of use. |
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