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Disappearing Glasgow

Author : Chris Leslie (Photographer)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911332497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Disappearing Glasgow written by Chris Leslie (Photographer) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow is not just famous for its humor, its shipyards, and its bold Victorian architecture, built in the days when it was the "second city of the Empire." It's also renowned as the home in the UK of the failed experiment with modernist architecture in the 1950s and 1960s--where those cleared from 19th century slums of the Gorbals and Govan were housed in vast tower block estates far from the city center, devoid of facilities and a sense of community. Initially a huge improvement on existing living conditions, a lack of investment and poor build quality meant these bold visions of the future soon fell into neglect. Here acclaimed photographer Chris Leslie and author and Professor of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art Johnny Rodger examine Glasgow's process of demolishing these contentious estates. For some they are blights on the city's international reputation, for some an important attempt to redefine the way we live, and for others they were home. This is a beautiful, highly visual book that is both fascinating and moving in equal measure.

Glasgow

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429848412
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Glasgow written by Lynn Abrams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites within the city and on its periphery. This book uniquely focuses on the people's experience of this modern approach to housing, drawing on oral histories and archival materials to reflect on the long-term narrative and significance of high-rise homes in the cityscape. It positions them as places of identity formation, intimacy and well-being. With discussions on interior design and consumption, gender roles, children, the elderly, privacy, isolation, social networks and nuisance, Glasgow examines the connections between architectural design, planning decisions and housing experience to offer some timely and prescient observations on the success and failure of this very modern housing solution at a moment when high flats are simultaneously denigrated in the social housing sector while being built afresh in the private sector. Glasgow is aimed at an academic readership, including postgraduate students, scholars and researchers. It will be of interest to social, cultural and urban historians particularly interested in the United Kingdom.

Transforming Glasgow

Author : Kintrea, Keith
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447349776
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Glasgow written by Kintrea, Keith and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after Glasgow turned towards regeneration, indicators of its built environment, its health, economic performance and its quality of life remain below UK averages. This interdisciplinary study examines the ongoing transformation of Glasgow as it has transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city during the 21st Century. Looking at diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration, and economic and social change, it considers the evolving lived experiences of Glaswegians. Contributors explore the necessary actions required to secure the gains of regeneration and create an economically competitive, socially just and sustainable city, establishing a theory that moves beyond post-industrialism that serves as a model for similar cities globally.

A Glasgow Mosaic

Author : Ian R Mitchell
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1909912735
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A Glasgow Mosaic written by Ian R Mitchell and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside; Red Orange and Green in 2009. The three books have all had similar aims in trying to raise the profile of forgotten or neglected areas and aspects of Glasgow and its history, in a small way trying to boost the esteem in which such places are held by the people who live in there and by those who visit. Moving away slightly from the working class focus, this third instalment presents a broad view of Glasgow's industrial, social and intellectual history. From public art to socialist memorials, and from factories to cultural hubs, Ian Mitchell takes the reader on a guided tour of Glasgow, outlining walking routes which encompass the city's forgotten icons.

Rhythm Changes

Author : Alan Stanbridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000755479
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Rhythm Changes written by Alan Stanbridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses – especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism – that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception. Tackling diverse issues, such as race, class, nationalism, authenticity, irony, parody, gender, art, commercialism, technology, and sound recording, the book’s perspective on artistic and cultural practices suggests new ways of thinking about jazz history. It challenges many established scholarly approaches in jazz research, providing a much-needed intervention in the current academic orthodoxies of Jazz Studies. Perhaps the most striking and distinctive aspect of the book is the extraordinary eclecticism of the wide-ranging but carefully chosen case studies and examples referenced throughout the text, from nineteenth century literature, through 1930s Broadway and film, to twentieth and twenty-first century jazz and popular music.

Alasdair Gray

Author : Rodge Glass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408833352
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Alasdair Gray written by Rodge Glass and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics Lanark, Poor Things and 1982, Janine, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great.

Your Everyday Art World

Author : Lane Relyea
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262316935
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Your Everyday Art World written by Lane Relyea and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critic takes issue with the art world's romanticizing of networks and participatory projects, linking them to the values of a globalized, neoliberal economy. Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum has been replaced by temporary projects scattered across the globe, staffed by free agents hired on short-term contracts, viewed by spectators defined by their predisposition to participate and make connections. In this book, Lane Relyea tries to make sense of these changes, describing a general organizational shift in the art world that affects not only material infrastructures but also conceptual categories and the construction of meaning. Examining art practice, exhibition strategies, art criticism, and graduate education, Relyea aligns the transformation of the art world with the advent of globalization and the neoliberal economy. He analyzes the new networked, participatory art world—hailed by some as inherently democratic—in terms of the pressures of part-time temp work in a service economy, the calculated stockpiling of business contacts, and the anxious duty of being a “team player” at work. Relyea calls attention to certain networked forms of art—including relational aesthetics, multiple or fictive artist identities, and bricolaged objects—that can be seen to oppose the values of neoliberalism rather than romanticizing and idealizing them. Relyea offers a powerful answer to the claim that the interlocking functions of the network—each act of communicating, of connecting, or practice—are without political content.

This Separated Isle

Author : Sng, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447354052
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book This Separated Isle written by Sng, Paul and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Separated Isle explores how concepts of ‘Britishness’ reveal an inclusive range of understandings about our national character. Featuring a diverse range of photographic portraits and narrative stories from across the UK, this landmark book examines the relationship between identity and nationhood, revealing the ties that bind us together.

Digital Participation and Collaboration in Architectural Design

Author : Richard Laing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351665480
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Digital Participation and Collaboration in Architectural Design written by Richard Laing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of new digital and visualisation technologies in recent years has led to rapid changes in the field of architecture. Current drives to incorporate building information modelling as a part of architectural design are giving way to the increased use of IT and visualisation in architectural design, user participation and group collaboration. As digital methods become more mainstream, Digital Participation and Collaboration in Architectural Design provides an accessible and engaging introduction to this emerging subject. Supported by selected examples from research and practice, the book offers an overview of theories, techniques and approaches which readers can apply in their own work. In doing so, it shows how these techniques can influence communication, debate and understanding and encourages readers to see familiar buildings from original and unusual perspectives. An ideal starting point for anyone interested in the application of digital techniques, the book will help students and professionals in architectural design and digital architecture to understand and embrace new technologies.

Disappearing Earth

Author : Julia Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525520422
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Disappearing Earth written by Julia Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

The City that Disappeared

Author : Frank Worsdall
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The City that Disappeared written by Frank Worsdall and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Life in the Hills

Author : Katharine Stewart
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788850017
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book A Life in the Hills written by Katharine Stewart and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katharine Stewart, who died in 2013, was one of Scotland's best-loved writers on rural life in the Highlands. A Croft in the Hills, her first book, tells the story of how a couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, took over a remote hill croft near Loch Ness and made a living from it. Full of warm personal insights, good humour and a love of living things, it has become a classic and has rarely been out of print since it was first published in 1960. This omnibus gathers A Croft in the Hills together with some of Katharine's later books: A Garden in the Hills, describing a year in the life of her Highland garden; A School in the Hills, a vivid history of the school at Abriachan which eventually became the Stewarts' family home; and The Post in the Hills, which tells the dramatic story of the postal service in the Highlands, from the point of view of Katharine's later role as postmistress of the smallest post office in Scotland, run from the porch of her Abriachan schoolhouse. Each of these books glows with what Neil Gunn described as 'its unusual quality, its brightness and its wisdom'. The omnibus will bring the grace, charm and wisdom of Katharine Stewart's writing to a new generation of readers.

Disappearing Men

Author : Carole Jones
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042026995
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Disappearing Men written by Carole Jones and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Dissonant Selves and the Literature of Gender Disorientation -- James Kelman - “that was him, out of sight”: Masculine Models and Limitations -- Janice Galloway - “Defying Gravity”: Escaping the Attractions of Patriarchy -- Being Between: Passing and the Limits of Subverting Masculinity in Jackie Kay's Trumpet -- A.L. Kennedy - Indelible Belief: The Quest for Faith in Uncertainty -- Alan Warner: Escape from Masculinity -- “Burying the Man That Was” -- Bibliography -- Index.

Reports from Committees

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reports from Committees written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political Guide to Modern Scotland

Author : Bernard Ingham
Publisher : Politico's Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Political Guide to Modern Scotland written by Bernard Ingham and published by Politico's Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of the "Almanac of Scottish Politics" quickly established itself as the key reference book for post-devolution Scottish politics. This second edition analyses the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary elections together with a review of the Parliament's first four years.

Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage

Author : Mark Alan Rhodes II
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100022533X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage written by Mark Alan Rhodes II and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All industrialization is deeply rooted within the specific geographies in which it took place, and echoes of previous industrialization continue to reverberate in these places through to the modern day. This book investigates the overlap of memory and the impacts of industrialization within today’s communities and the senses of place and heritage that grew alongside and in reaction to the growth of mines, mills, and factories. The economic and social change that accompanied the unchecked accumulation of wealth and exploitation of labor as the industrial revolution spread throughout the world has numerous lasting impacts on the socioeconomics of today. Likewise, the planet itself is now reeling. The memory and heritage of these processes reach into the communities that owe the industrial revolution their existence, but these populations also often suffered adverse impacts to their health and environment through the large-scale and rapid extraction of natural resources and production of goods. Through the themes of memory, community, and place; working post-industrial landscapes; and the de-romanticization of industrial pasts, this book examines the endurance and decline of these communities, the spatial processes of industrial byproducts, and the memory and heritage of industrialization and its legacies. While based in the traditions of geography, this collection also draws upon and will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, architecture, civil engineering, and heritage, memory, museum, and tourism studies. Using global examples, the authors provide a uniquely geographic understanding to industrial heritage across the spaces, places, and memories of industrial development.

The Backstreets of Purgatory

Author : Helen Taylor
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783525568
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Backstreets of Purgatory written by Helen Taylor and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finn Garvie’s life is one spectacular mess. He spends most of his time fannying around a makeshift Glasgow studio, failing to paint his degree portfolio, while his girlfriend Lizzi treats him like one of her psychology patients, and his best friend Rob is convinced that the tattoos he designs are the height of artistic achievement. To top it all, Finn is worried that some stinking bastard is hanging around, spying on him, laughing at his cock-ups and eating his leftover curry. Fortunately, he has plenty of techniques to distract him – tackling the church hall renovations with the help of his alcoholic neighbour; pining after Kassia, the splendidly stroppy au-pair; and re-reading that book on Caravaggio, his all-time hero. Things take a turn for the strange when he finally encounters the person who’s been bugging him, and it seems to be none other than Caravaggio himself... Art, truth and madness come to blows in this darkly funny debut novel from a startling new talent. 'Fascinating and incredibly funny – this is a bold new voice in Scottish fiction' 17 Degrees 'She has written a Scottish novel of significance and I can’t recommend it enough' Scots Whay Hae 'Memorable and intriguing' Undiscovered Scotland