Launch of The Modernist app - Glasgow tours
06 June
Greater Glasgow & Clyde Discussion Event Celebration
Event Summary
A social gathering marking the launch of Glasgow tours on The Modernist app, preceded by a panel discussion about post-war urban renewal in Glasgow.
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6.00pm
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06 June
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Glasgow City Heritage Trust
54 Bell St,
Glasgow
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the modernist society
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Join the Modernist Society, the Glasgow City Heritage Trust and Professor Richard Brook for an engaging discussion on Urban Renewal : Building the City, or Killing the Civic? This thought-provoking event will be followed by a social gathering to celebrate the launch of the Modernist App Glasgow tours.
Free to attend - refreshment will be provided. Reserve your place here.
(Due to limited availability for the discussion, attendees are welcome to join both the discussion and the App launch/social event—or simply attend the App launch and social gathering. We look forward to seeing you there for an evening of conversation and celebration!)
(part 1: Panel Discussion) Urban Renewal Glasgow - building the city, or killing the civic? In this discussion, chaired by Professor Richard Brook (Lancaster University), panellists will reflect on the major renewal initiatives of the 1960s and ask what they did for the city. Most Scottish and northern English cities experienced renewal in similar ways - inner-urban motorways, mass housing schemes, new shopping centres, vertical separation, university expansion - often partially realised and derided for the damage they wrought upon urban centres. This panel considers the motivations, successes and errors of mid-century planning and architecture and wonders what the long-term legacy will be...
(part 2: Social) the Modernist Society invite you to join us for some drinks and conversation, to mark the launch of four new architectural tours of 20th century Glasgow, which will be freely available on the Modernist App. (With the support of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust.)
