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SC_1142033.png,Upper Denburn Comprehensive Development Area I,Gilcomston Park

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dc.contributor Heritage Lottery Fund
dc.contributor Ward, Pauline
dc.creator Glendinning, Miles
dc.date 2019-11-14T16:22:22Z
dc.date 2019-11-14T16:22:22Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:53:31Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:53:31Z
dc.identifier Glendinning, Miles. (2019). SC_1142033.png,Upper Denburn Comprehensive Development Area I,Gilcomston Park, 1992 [image]. University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh College of Art. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2700.
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10283/3498
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2700
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/244121
dc.description Multi-storey block details: one 22-storey block containing 120 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): Denburn Court SC54 ; Image detail: View of Upper Denburn Comprehensive Development Area 1 Original Commissioning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Council; Construction period (from/to): 1971 1973 Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains details of the individual blocks built.
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dc.publisher University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh College of Art
dc.relation http://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/upper-denburn-comprehensive-development-area-i
dc.relation https://towerblock.org/TowerBlock.pdf
dc.subject public housing
dc.subject tower block
dc.subject prefabrication
dc.subject multi-storey block
dc.subject neighbourhood unit
dc.subject housing scheme
dc.subject housing estate
dc.subject industrialised building
dc.subject tenement block
dc.subject residential district
dc.subject walk-up flats
dc.subject low-rise housing
dc.subject modern architecture
dc.subject modernism
dc.subject postmodernism
dc.subject landscape architecture
dc.subject deck access
dc.subject Brutalism
dc.subject council housing
dc.subject cluster
dc.subject megastructure
dc.subject Radburn planning
dc.subject concrete construction
dc.subject system building
dc.subject large panel concrete construction
dc.subject vernacular
dc.subject Row housing
dc.subject Terraced housing
dc.subject Patio housing
dc.subject Slum clearance
dc.subject Redevelopment
dc.subject Architecture Building and Planning::Housing
dc.title SC_1142033.png,Upper Denburn Comprehensive Development Area I,Gilcomston Park
dc.type image
dc.coverage AB25 1PJ
dc.coverage Aberdeen
dc.coverage UK
dc.coverage UNITED KINGDOM
dc.coverage start=1992; end=1992; scheme=W3C-DTF


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