Basic Site Details

Name: Whitfield Housing Scheme
City or county: Dundee
Country: Scotland
Parish:  
Status:  
Grid ref:
Notes: Southern half of scheme designed by City Architect and northern half by Crudents on the Skarne system

Building Type Classification

The building is classified under the following categories:
 ClassificationOriginal classification?Notes
Item 1 of 1Housing scheme  

Events

The following date-based events are associated with this building:
 FromToEvent typeNotes
Item 1 of 119651971Build/construction 

Related Buildings, Structures and Designs

Child Structures

This structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details):
 Building NameNotes
Item 1 of 81,470 dwellings, Whitfield Housing Scheme (Industrialised Phase I) 
Item 2 of 8105 dwellings, Whitfield Housing Scheme (2nd development) 
Item 3 of 8105 houses, Whitfield Housing Scheme (4th development phase 2) 
Item 4 of 8168 flats, Whitfield Housing Scheme 
Item 5 of 82 tower blocks, Whitfield Housing Scheme 
Item 6 of 8201 houses, Whitfield Housing Scheme (5th/6th developments) 
Item 7 of 865 dwellings, Whitfield Housing Scheme (3rd development) 
Item 8 of 8977 dwellings, Whitfield Housing Scheme (Industrialised Phase II) 

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this building:
 Author(s)DateTitlePartPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 3Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan1994Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland Yale University Press: New Haven and Londonp207
Perspective by Crudens (1967) p242
Aerial view from north-west (1971) p242
p243
Item 2 of 3RCAHMS1992Dundee on Record RCAHMSp55
p59
View from north west during construction showing hexagonal plan of site (1971) p62
Perspective of proposed blocks (1967) p62
Phase 1 - demolition of the deck block in progress (1990) p62
Item 3 of 3RCAHMS1999Homebuilders: Mactaggart & Mickel and the Scottish housebuilding industry RCAHMSp254