The slum clearances are a pivotal part of Glasgow history, which with hindsight is often subject to romanticised revisionism. The ideology of the controversial Bruce Report underpinned the clearances, and its effects still resonate in a modern Glasgow.
The Bruce Report
The First Planning Report to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, or The Bruce Report, was published in March 1945 and in it documented the recommendation of large-scale regeneration and all-encompassing rebuilding of Glasgow and its surrounding areas. While in theory this idea, a complete regeneration of a major city, initially suggested cause for celebration, The Bruce Report and its ideas were not without criticism even at the time.