There is a separate post for Alice Coleman on the blog.
This year marks the centenary of her birth.
See later update.
Image source: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/sius2014/LorettaLees_SIUS.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.12047
In an article in 'The Guardian' in 2019, Lynsey Hanley (author of the excellent 'Estates') talks about Alice's contributions to improving people's lives and campaigning against concrete tower blocks.
I am reminded here of some classic schools' TV programmes from the 1980s set in Glasgow - part of the 'Geography Casebook' and looking at the problems of the city's redevelopment, with Kitty Murphy describing how it used to be in the tenements they replaced with the streets "so warm and good".
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More to come as the Centenary gets nearer.
UPDATE
Sadly we heard of Alice's passing in May this year, just before her 100th birthday.
A celebration of her work is in the Summer 2023 issue of GA Magazine.
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