Few places better exemplify post-war urban renewal in Scotland than the Gorbals, an area which has been repeatedly developed over the past 50 years.
Since the end of the Second World War, the Gorbals has witnessed massive changes that have rendered it unrecognisable.
A new Gorbals emerged in the 1960s that saw much of the area's Victorian tenement stock razed as part of a major slum clearance programme.
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Dozens of high rise tower blocks rose skywards, as the Gorbals became the poster child for a new standard in 20th century urban living.
But the new dawn that the post-war developments promised would never quite materialise.
By the 1980s, many of the sprawling new housing schemes that made up this latest iteration of the Gorbals were fast descending into concrete slums, with the squalor not unlike that which had been seen 20 years earlier.
Several hundred post-war homes, the newest of which were barely two decades old, would be demolished in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with many more to follow, as planners were forced to admit that they got it badly wrong.
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In these photos, mostly taken between 1981 and 1987, we can see the already dilapidated developments that made up much of Hutchesontown. Most of these homes have since either been demolished or heavily altered and improved.
A University of Edinburgh project called Tower Block UK, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has been collecting and preserving images of post-war high rise housing as important pieces of our heritage and social history. The pictures featured here are from their extensive collection.
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