| Comment | Decades ago Glasgow lost a lot of tenement housing stock, demolished wholesale in comprehensive redevelopment.
There doesn't appear to have been much objection at the time, the housing conditions were terrible. It was only later that the value of some (but not necessarily all) of the remaining tenements was recognised, and refurbishment undertaken.
I do wonder if there's some imaginative leap that could be made with refurbishing some (but not all) tower blocks to make them more liveable. With what we know now about the embedded energy / carbon in these structures demolition should be a last resort. Some undoubtedly need to go, but what could be done to the rest to bring them up to scratch? It was possible with tenements, is it possible with a high rise? |
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