The advent of state-sponsored mass high-rise housing in post-war Britain brought into view a range of issues about the role of technology in everyday life. This paper draws on approaches in the study of science and technology in order to deepen our understanding of the socio-technical aspects of such high-rise housing, past and present. This thinking is elaborated empirically by examining a 1960s high-rise development, Red Road, Glasgow. The paper examines the inaugural phase of development and the most recent phase of 'redevelopment', the first stage of which is demolition. The paper extends existing accounts of residential high-rises generally and Red Road specifically, as well as elaborating an alternate analytical framework for understanding high-rise and supertall dwellings.

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This paper summarises the methodological approach taken in an interdisciplinary project involving geographers and architects. The project charted the diverse afterlives of the modernist‐inspired, state‐sponsored, residential high‐rise, and did so drawing on two cases: Red Road Estate in Glasgow and Bukit Ho Swee Estate in Singapore. In offering a specific account of, and reflection upon, the methodologies used in the High‐rise Project, we hope to advance the methodological repertoire of human geography generally and contribute further to the new wave of scholarship on geography and architecture.

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Introduction From its beginnings in 1960, Singapore's Housing Development Board (HDB) has been the main provider of housing for Singaporeans and nowadays accommodates well over 85% of the population in`owned' (long-term leasehold) flats. Constrained by land shortages, committed to the pragmatics of efficient delivery, and no doubt influenced by global trends in mass-housing provision, it enthusiastically adopted the modernist highrise as the architectural type for its post-independence programme of universal housing provision. The HDB has routinely reflected with pride on the part which it, and its housing programme, have played in the making of modern Singapore. For example, the HDB's main office, dubbed`The Hub', has always boasted a small museum space showcasing the institution's achievements. In the HDB's current headquarters, the museum is part of an extensive display space called`The Gallery' which uses a series of`before and after' interior recreations to tell the story of the HDB's role in providing`homes for the people'. Visitors are led past`slum',`squatter', and`kampung' interiors, on to the modern interiors of the 1960s highrises, and then to contemporary innovations like the entirely prefabricated`plug-on' bathroom. The curatorial sensibility of this display lays somewhere between that of the museum diorama and the show home and, indeed, visitors can move seamlessly from the interior recreations of the museum space to a series of full-scale, fully decorated interior layouts of HDB flats currently on offer to prospective buyers. (1) The centrality of these displays at The Hub hint at the special role which the interior and interior decoration have played in the housing-provision story of Singapore.

This review focuses on recent research literature on the use of Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) in city planning. The review foregrounds representational, evaluative, projective, and synthetical meta-practices as constituent practices of city planning. We structure our review around these four meta-practices that we consider fundamental to those processes. We find that significant research exists in all four metapractices. Linking across domains by combining various methods of semantic knowledge generation, processing, and management is necessary to bridge gaps between these meta-practices and will enable future Semantic City Planning Systems.

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