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Red Road towers, built to combat Glasgow's slums in the 1960s, now slated for demolition
Glasgow’s Red Road flats. Hailed as the solution to slums, they came to represent the failings of 20th-century high-rise housing. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/Guardian. Image via theguardian.com. Two boys look at the newly constructed Red Road flats, then the highest in Europe, in November 1967. Photograph: Bob Thomas/Getty. Image via theguardian.com.

Glasgow’s Red Road flats. Hailed as the solution to slums, they came to represent the failings of 20th-century high-rise housing. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/Guardian. Image via theguardian.com.
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Glasgow’s Red Road flats. Hailed as the solution to slums, they came to represent the failings of 20th-century high-rise housing. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/Guardian. Image via theguardian.com.