And They Come Tumbling Down

Many agree that no European city embraced social housing towers more than Glasgow did after the Second World War. As the Corbusian and Brutalist towers went up, the tenements came down. Today the skyline is changing, as these towers are regularly declared unfit for habitation and demolished. Once there were more than 230 housing towers, but today’s count of approximately 170 will be reduced to 120 within the next decade. Demolition of many of the city’s towers is seen as both ideologically and socially driven. Some possibly could be reimagined, but most are undeniably horrendous and breeding grounds for alienation from the day-to-day life of any community.