Apartment

[Fact 1]: Until little more than a year ago its dark burrows harbored a colony of blind beggars, tenants of a blind landlord, old Daniel Murphy, whom every child in the ward knows, if he never heard of the President of the United States.

[Fact 2]: The policy of tenement demolition is now considered to have been short-sighted, wasteful and largely unsuccessful.

[Fact 3]: The Glasgow Housing Association took ownership of the housing stock from the city council on 7 March 2003, and has begun a £96 million clearance and demolition programme to clear and demolish many of the high-rise flats.Glasgow announces a revolution in house-buildingHigh-rise apartment buildings were built in the Yemeni city of Shibam in the 16th century.

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[Fact 5]: National government help was given following World War I when Housing Acts sought to provide "homes fit for heroes".

[Fact 6]: The tenements were breeding grounds for outlaws, juvenile delinquents, and organized crime.

[Fact 7]: Ref> In the 11th century, Nasir Khusraw described some of these apartment buildings rising up to fourteen stories, with roof gardens on the top storey complete with ox-drawn water wheels for irrigating them.By the 16th century, the current Cairo also had high-rise apartment buildings, where the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple stories above them were rented out to tenants.In Scotland, the term 'tenement' lacks the pejorative connotations it carries elsewhere, and refers simply to any block of flats sharing a common central staircase and lacking an elevator, particularly those constructed prior to 1919.

[Fact 8]: While Shibam has existed for around 2,000 years, most of the city's houses come mainly from the 16th century.Shibam is often called "the oldest skyscraper-city in the world" or "Manhattan of the desert", and is the earliest example of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction, as it was the first city to consist entirely of high-rise residential buildings. Some of them were over high, thus being the tallest mudbrick apartment buildings in the world to this day.In 1839, the first New York City tenement was built, housing mainly poor immigrants.

[Fact 9]: These proved too expensive, so a modern tenement, three stories high, slate roofed and built of reconstituted stone, was re-introduced and a slum clearance programme initiated to clear areas such as the Calton and the Garngad.Post Second World War, more ambitious plans, known as the Bruce Plan, were made for the complete evacuation of slums to modern mid-rise housing developments on the outskirts of the city.

[Fact 10]: I stand on the very brink of the grave, blind and helpless, and now where a huge number of hi-rise housing commission flats were built between the 1950s and 1970s by successive governments as part of an urban renewal program.

[Fact 11]: Muckraker journalist Jacob Riis wrote in How the Other Half Lives:

The New York tough may be ready to kill where his London brother would do little more than scowl; yet, as a general thing he is less repulsively brutal in looks.