Slum clearance and relocation

A reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives

Bibliographic Data

ID11484288
AuthorsAileen Kearns (0000-0003-3198-8392, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Ade Kearns (University of Glasgow), Valerie Wright (0000-0002-4400-9272, University of Glasgow), Leonard Abrams (0000-0002-9886-4872, University of Glasgow), Lynn Abrams, Barry Hazley (0000-0002-1759-5456, University of Liverpool)
Year2019
Volume34
Issue2
Pages201-225
Publication date2019-02-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHousing Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-3037 • E-ISSN: 1466-1810
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02673037.2017.1409342
OpenAlexW2781334847
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited39

Housing research rarely takes a long-term view of the impacts of short-term housing changes. Thus, in studies of post-war relocation, narratives of ‘loss of community’ and ‘dislocation’ have dominated the debate for decades. This paper combines a ‘re-study’ methodology with oral histories to re-examine the experience of relocation into high-rise flats in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s. We find that both the immediate and longer term outcomes of relocation varied greatly; while some people failed to settle and felt a loss of social relations, many others did not. People had agency, some chose to get away from tenement life and others chose to move on subsequently as aspirations changed. Furthermore, relocation to high-rise was not always the life-defining event or moment it is often depicted to be. Outcomes from relocation are mediated by many other events and experiences, questioning its role as an explanatory paradigm in housing studies

Demographic economics · Economics · Population · Relocation · Slum · Sociology · Term (time · Computer Science · Demography · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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