| Comment | I'm sure if you just take out all sentimentality it would be easier and cheaper to flatten every old building and built tall, well insulated high rises that can house like 20x as many people as tenements.
In fact the idea at the time was it would improve people's quality of living, there would be a huge supply of cheap social housing that was way more sanitary and less cramped than what was there before.
They fucked up big time and most of those massive projects was a disaster but at their hearts really were in the right place, they just didn't take into account that efficiency might look great on a proposal, but it doesn't necessarily make for happy people and they also didn't take into account the positive impact that beautiful architecture has on communities.
Some remnants of the efficiency first and always approach remain, the Boyd Orr building at Glasgow uni is a fucking eyesore that they were desperate to get demolished about a decade ago, but there's no way they'd be allowed to build something as tall so whatever they replaced it with would be such a less efficient use of space that they chose to just reclad it. |
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