Patterns of building adaptation and redevelopment in the central business district of Glasgow
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Patterns of building adaptation and redevelopment in the central business district of Glasgow
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Sim, Duncan Fraser, author.
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9780438057043
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1 electronic resource (266 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08C.
Advisors: Jeremy Whitehand.
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This thesis is an attempt to study in some detail the postwar changes that have taken place in a city centre for which no explicit plan has been formulated. In the period after the l947 Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, the attention of the newly formed Glasgow Corporation Planning Department was directed, perhaps not surprisingly, towards slum clearance and housebuilding. The lack of a Central Area plan was therefore not an indication of a lack of need but the presence of a greater need elsewhere. The result of this situation has been that redevelopment of the Central Business District has been undertaken largely at the ebb and flow of the economic market and, in comparison with other British cities, there has been little direct involvement by the local authority. In a situation such as this, where the initiative has, to a large extent, been taken by the private developer, it is interesting to try and establish the factors that appear to suggest one site as being more suitable for redevelopment than another. Chapter 2 sets out the formal hypothesis that both adaptation and redevelopment in Glasgow's CBD are far from random and previous work suggests that the pattern is likely to be affected by factors such as landownership, plot ratio, age and obsolescence of buildings, accessibility, prestige addresses, and spatial linkages. Data were obtaimed primarily from the minutes of the Corporation Planning Committee, although other varied sources were used, including field surveys, aerial photographs, files of amenity societies and newspaper accounts. The data were mapped and the maps revealed those parts of the CBD where change was taking place rapidly and those where there was little adaptation or redevelopment taking place. Building adaptations are divided into five main categories and considered in Chapter 3. Facade changes are shown to occur largely in areas of retailing activity, the prime reason being to attract potential shoppers. Use changes, on the other hand, occur across a wider area and cannot be directly related to specific land uses. Rather, they reflect the changes that take place in the economic life of buildings and reference is made to the work of Cowan and Lewis in this respect. Horizontal extensions take place in Georgian areas of the CBD, being largely extensions om to former garden land, as in Blythswood, and appear to extend the economic life of buildings and delay redevelopment. Conversely, where land is not available for such extensions, as in the Buchanan Street/St. Vincent Street core of the CBD, an amalgamation of plots tends to occur. Finally, vertical extensions are not very localised in their distribution as they are dependent on building styles and, in particular, the adaptability of roofs for this type of extension. It is noted that Edwardian buildings are particularly unsuited to this. Redevelopment is considered in chapters 4 and 5 and the factors involved are divided into those affecting site and neighbourhood. Site factors are firstly, landownership and, in particular, the ease with which various plots of land can be assembled into a site large enough for major redevelopment to take place. Secondly, Glasgow operates a policy whereby the plot ratio of a new building must not exceed 3.5:1 and this is an important factor. Unless the building to be replaced is obsolescent and unlikely to be adapted (as in the case of theatres, transportation terminals etc.), then it is not profitable to redevelop buildings with a plot ratio higher than 3.5:1 as this would involve a loss in office space. Thirdly, the age of the building is also important, Victorian buildings, in particular, are very wasteful of space and are often unsuited to modern office practices. This is apparently borne out by the frequency with which they are redeveloped.
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