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Red Road Flats, the Glossary

The Red Road Flats were a mid-twentieth-century high-rise housing complex located between the districts of Balornock and Barmulloch in the northeast of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.^[1]

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1966 establishments in Scotland
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Anderston

Anderston (Anderstoun, Baile Aindrea) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Arrochar Alps

The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the heads of Loch Long, Loch Fyne, and Loch Goil.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous silicate mineral.

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Balornock

Balornock (Both Lobharnaig) is a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Barbican Estate

The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes, and houses in central London, England, within the City of London.

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Barmulloch

Barmulloch (Barr a' Mhullaich) is a suburban area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Red Road Flats and Barmulloch are housing estates in Glasgow.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Ben Lomond

Ben Lomond (Beinn Laomainn),, is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Blackhill, Glasgow

Blackhill (Cnoc Dubh) is an area of north east Glasgow, Scotland. Red Road Flats and Blackhill, Glasgow are housing estates in Glasgow.

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The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers were twin 31–storey brutalist tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Red Road Flats and Bluevale and Whitevale Towers are demolished buildings and structures in Scotland, former skyscrapers, residential buildings completed in 1968, residential skyscrapers in Scotland and Skyscrapers in Glasgow.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.

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Bruce Report

The Bruce Report (or the Bruce Plan) is the name commonly given to the First Planning Report to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of the City of GlasgowRobert Bruce (1945), First Planning report to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, Corporation of the City of Glasgow, Glasgow published in March 1945.

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Brutalist architecture

Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era.

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Building implosion

In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings.

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Burglary

Burglary, also called breaking and entering (B&E) and housebreaking, is the act of illegally entering a building or other areas without permission, typically with the intention of committing a further criminal offence.

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Camlachie

Camlachie (Camadh Làthaich) is an area of Glasgow in Scotland, located in the East End of the city, between Dennistoun to the north, and Bridgeton to the south.

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Campsie Fells

The Campsie Fells (also known as the Campsies; Monadh Chamaisidh) are a range of hills in central Scotland, stretching east to west from Denny Muir to Dumgoyne in Stirlingshire and overlooking Strathkelvin to the south.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Carolyn Leckie

Carolyn Leckie (born 5 March 1965) is a Scottish politician.

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Celtic Park

Celtic Park (Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Cheilteach) is a football stadium, currently the home of Scottish Premiership team Celtic Football Club, in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, Scotland.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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Concierge

A concierge is an employee of a multi-tenant building, such as a hotel or apartment building, who receives guests.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Council house

A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities.

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Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld (meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Didier Pasquette

Didier Pasquette is a noted French tightrope walker.

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East Kilbride

East Kilbride (Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and the country's sixth-largest locality by population.

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Erskine Bridge

The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Fireproofing

Fireproofing is rendering something (structures, materials, etc.) resistant to fire, or incombustible; or material for use in making anything fire-proof.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow City Council

Glasgow City Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu) is the local government authority for Glasgow City council area, Scotland.

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Gorbals

The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde. Red Road Flats and Gorbals are housing estates in Glasgow.

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Green belt

A green belt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas.

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Housing association

In Ireland and the United Kingdom, housing associations are private, non-profit making organisations that provide low-cost "social housing" for people in need of a home.

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Hutchesontown C

Hutchesontown C was a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Red Road Flats and Hutchesontown C are demolished buildings and structures in Scotland and former skyscrapers.

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Intercom

An intercom, also called an intercommunication device, intercommunicator, or interphone, is a stand-alone voice communications system for use within a building, small collection of buildings or portably within a small coverage area, which functions independently of the public telephone network.

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Isle of Arran

The Isle of Arran (Eilean Arainn) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland.

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Kosovo War

The Kosovo War (Lufta e Kosovës; Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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List of tallest buildings and structures in Glasgow

This is a list of tallest buildings in Glasgow which are at least 40m (131ft) in height and above in the largest city in Scotland. Red Road Flats and list of tallest buildings and structures in Glasgow are Skyscrapers in Glasgow.

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List of tallest voluntarily demolished buildings

Voluntary building demolition is the decision by either the landowner or a higher government body to demolish a structure for any number of reasons, ranging from severe structural damage to the redevelopment of the land the building sits upon. Red Road Flats and List of tallest voluntarily demolished buildings are former skyscrapers.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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New towns in the United Kingdom

The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate people from poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War.

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Pathé News

Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970 in the United Kingdom.

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Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on the morning of 7 August 1974.

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Radio-frequency identification

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

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Red Road (film)

Red Road is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, and Natalie Press.

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Renting

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good, service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time.

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Scottish Television

Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland.

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Steel frame

Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.

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Taggart

Taggart is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network.

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Tenement

A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson, known in the United States as Barney Thomson, is a 2015 British comedy thriller film based on the 1999 novel The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay.

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The Sentinels

The Sentinels are two 90 metre tall residential tower blocks on Holloway Head in Birmingham, England.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.

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Tower block

A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.

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Towers in the park

Towers in the park is a morphology of modernist, Globe and Mail, John Bentley Mays, May 12, 2011 high rise apartment buildings characterized by a high-rise building (a "slab") surrounded by a swath of landscaped land.

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Townhead

Townhead (Ceann a' Bhaile, Tounheid) is a district within the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.

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Wheatley Homes Glasgow

Wheatley Homes Glasgow (formerly Glasgow Housing Association or GHA) is the largest social landlord in Scotland with 40,000 homes across Glasgow.

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Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock

William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, (7 April 1911 – 10 June 1988) was the longest serving Secretary of State for Scotland, holding office from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974-76, throughout the premiership of Harold Wilson.

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Red Road Flats and World Trade Center (1973–2001) are former skyscrapers.

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YMCA

YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.

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2014 Commonwealth Games

The 2014 Commonwealth Games (Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 (Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; Glaschu 2014), were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Road_Flats

Also known as 21 Birnie Court, Demolition of Red Road Flats, Red Road (Glasgow), Red Road (flats).

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See also

1966 establishments in Scotland

2015 disestablishments in Scotland

Housing estates in Glasgow

Modernist architecture in Scotland

Residential buildings completed in 1968

Residential skyscrapers in Scotland

Urban decay in Europe

References