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FEW people who lived in the city in the 50s will forget the ‘Glasgow Clearances’. This was a time of momentous change. The Corporation decided that Glasgow’ s housing problems would be resolved by a massive programme of slum clearance and relocation of communities. It was underpinned by the Clyde Valley Regional Planning Strategy of1946, prepared by Sir Patrick Abercrombie, a distinguished planning expert, to tackle the complex social and economic problems covering Glasgow and the five counties surrounding it. The report identified the need to disperse between 250,000 and 300,000 people from the centre of the city. In the 1940s and 1950s housing schemes had appeared on the outskirts of the city at Pollok, Castlemilk, Easterhouse and Drumchapel. ....
Intercity House 'Halo of Light' skyscraper running ahead of schedule plymouthherald.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from plymouthherald.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Posted on April 20th, 2021 KNO Dharmadasa Courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog Shirley D’Alwis, the first University Architect, died in harness. He was working day and night to complete the job entrusted to him – the preparation of the buildings he had designed and started constructing – for the university to be shifted to its intended site in Peradeniya. After a long and protracted battle of the sites” fought in the legislature and in the media, the State Council had finally decided in September 1938 that the proposed University of Ceylon was to be a unitary and residential university and that it should be sited in the land to be acquired from the New Peradeniya Estate, a tea and rubber plantation on the lower Hantana range on the banks of Mahaveli Ganga. It was a picturesque site with the tree clad hilly terrain sloping down from the Hantana range to the river bank. ....
LankaWeb – Shirley De Alwis: The Hand behind Peradeniya University's Designs lankaweb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lankaweb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.