Miles Glendinning
Biographic Data
| ID | 504970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miles Glendinning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miles |
| FAMILY NAME | Glendinning |
| SIGNATURE | GLENDINNING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5512-5597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
First decade revisited
The public housing programme of the hegemonic government Housing and Development Board (HDB) has long occupied a central place within the ‘Singapore Story’ – the official foundation-narrative propagated by the Singaporean nation-state under the unbroken rule of the People’s Action Party (PAP) since 1959. In recent years, however, this narrative has increasingly been questioned by a range of scholars, writing from various perspectives. This articl…
Chua Beng Huat, Public Subsidy / Private Accumulation
The Conservation Movement
Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable? Certainly, ancient structures have long b…
Multifaceted Monolith
Present-day perspectives on the post-war era of state-sponsored social housing generally portray the movement, internationally and nationally, as one of overwhelming, alienating homogeneity. If, however, we look carefully at what was done 'on the ground', we discover a very different picture, one of subtle and almost limitless diversity. This article combines a short international overview with a single national case study, that of Great Britain.…
The Conservation Movement
In this polemical paper, I argue that, although conservation has generally presented itself as an anti -modern phenomenon, it is actually very modern indeed; the rise of the conservation movement has been a key element in the modern transformation of the built environment. The paper assesses how this situation has come about, drawing on the turn-of-century ideas of Alois Riegl, and argues that this modern concept of the monument has had a positiv…
The Conservation Movement
In this polemical paper, I argue that, although conservation has generally presented itself as an anti -modern phenomenon, it is actually very modern indeed; the rise of the conservation movement has been a key element in the modern transformation of the built environment. The paper assesses how this situation has come about, drawing on the turn-of-century ideas of Alois Riegl, and argues that this modern concept of the monument has had a positiv…
The Conservation Movement
In this polemical paper, I argue that, although conservation has generally presented itself as an anti -modern phenomenon, it is actually very modern indeed; the rise of the conservation movement has been a key element in the modern transformation of the built environment. The paper assesses how this situation has come about, drawing on the turn-of-century ideas of Alois Riegl, and argues that this modern concept of the monument has had a positiv…
Multifaceted Monolith
Present-day perspectives on the post-war era of state-sponsored social housing generally portray the movement, internationally and nationally, as one of overwhelming, alienating homogeneity. If, however, we look carefully at what was done 'on the ground', we discover a very different picture, one of subtle and almost limitless diversity. This article combines a short international overview with a single national case study, that of Great Britain.…
The Conservation Movement
Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable? Certainly, ancient structures have long b…
Chua Beng Huat, Public Subsidy / Private Accumulation
First decade revisited
The public housing programme of the hegemonic government Housing and Development Board (HDB) has long occupied a central place within the ‘Singapore Story’ – the official foundation-narrative propagated by the Singaporean nation-state under the unbroken rule of the People’s Action Party (PAP) since 1959. In recent years, however, this narrative has increasingly been questioned by a range of scholars, writing from various perspectives. This articl…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (2 works) · History (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public housing (2 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (2 works)