Florian Urban (Professor and Head of History of Architectural/Urban Studies at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art)
Demographic tipping point.
A cultural turn.
New life in a new city of new tenements.
Typological differences.
United in intention to create a neighbourhood.
Desire for typological continuity
Stripped classicism.
Watered-down modernist vocabulary.
Sites earmarked for demolition in the 1960s.
Remained empty for decades.
Replacement with dense urban street form.
Adaptive re-use of sites in inner city.
Removal of industry to periphery.
Neo-liberal. Only partially true.
Funded by an interventionist state and a fledgling market.
Private market increases suburban typologies.
Oscar Newman. Defensible Space.
Criticism of tower-in-park developments.
The image of the old tenement as a common reference point.
Idealisation of bourgeois elites.
Individualism negotiated through control.
Idealisation of Stadtbürger, the urban citizen.
Mitscherlich. Empowering the individual to participate.
Towards a New Age.
Anti-interventionist agenda.
City as motor of creativity and development.
Georg Simmel.
The urban creative class.
Connect creativity to economic potential.
New city generated by architecture.
Visible difference and meritocracy.
Spaces of encounter in the city.
Labour of harbour becomes a desirable vista. Copenhagen.
Labour of brewery becomes an idyllic space. Berlin.
Within the city but excludes the city.
Twice demolished neighbourhood.
Glasgow. New Gorbals.
New tenement neighbourhoods imply re-writing of history.
Commodification of history.
Victorian era reinterpreted to expose community and individual entrepreneurship.
The end of the decay of the city.
Acceptance of social polarization.
Conflation of far right and far left blurring the lines of conflict.