| Comment | Having a bit of trouble fully understanding your research question.
Is your question basically asking something like:
"Did (does) Govan's reputation for poverty and deprivation come from the construction of new housing (in Govan), meant to alleviate overcrowding in other areas?". As in, Govan might've been fine otherwise but it took the brunt of reconstruction to help out other parts of the city?
Because I don't think that's quite how it happened. The city's [Comprehensive Development Areas programme of the 1950s](https://www.theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSFG) covered most of Glasgow. I think there were 24 or so in total. So it's not like rebuilding Govan was seen as a remedy for issues elsewhere: the rebuilding was envisioned to be citywide.
It's just that Govan was one of the handful of districts where CDA plans were almost seen through to completion, before a combination of civic pushback and 1970s government debt crisis forced a complete halt to most of the programme. In fact, Govan's CDA works actually stalled as far as I know, and the better, more complete examples were Townhead, Cowcaddens and the Gorbals. |
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