In one respect Glasgow's slum problem is simpler than that of! London. The easiest method of dealing with slums is the homoeopathic—the substitution of roomy, well-equipped, well-lit tenements for' unhealthly, out-of-date tenements which are not only crowded but are factually wasteful of space. The vast majority of Glasgow people are tenement dwellers by inherited in-stiner. In London the new com. minal spirit has to contend with the old individualist spirit of the English people. The slum-dwellers lin London whose homes are threatened with demolition want cottages with separate sculleries and gardens. They want, in fact, to give practical Justification to the description of London as the "biggest village in the world." If @ heroic attempt to meet the wishes of the slum-dwellers of tion of the land problem, the big village of London stretched nstinets of the people would strengthen, and would find more and more scope, and a great aystem of intensive cultivation of land would develop on the fringes of London. The people would find their way "back to the land" vid the crofts and market-dens of the outer suburbs. In Glasgow such a development is unlikely. The Glasgow people have become more thoroughly divorced from the land than the people of 4 any big English cit Nothing save fan acute house shortage would have. indueed them to make any departure from the tenement sy: From an aesthetic point of vi the benefit of that system was that it packed urban ugliness into a relatively small space, and made it, easy to escape from' it into open country.
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