Fight Blight: A Practical Guide to the Causes of Urban Dereliction and What People Can Do About It

by Charles McKean

Blight - urban dereliction has become so commonplace as to pass almost unnoticed by many people. But derelict, unused land and empty, decaying buildings are not only unsightly: they are a waste of resources which we badly need when land is scarce and money short.

In Fight Blight the author shows how people can take practical action to improve their local living conditions, citing many examples of action groups, community councils and societies who have achieved solid results by using their initiative and utilising professional help.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Charles McKean was a Scottish historian, author and scholar. He was the author of architectural guides to Stirling, Dundee, Edinburgh, London, Cambridge and East Anglia.

For many years he was a pillar of the of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), serving as chief executive, secretary and treasurer between 1979 and 1994.

He was architecture correspondent for The Times and Scotland on Sunday. He was a professor at the University of Dundee from the mid-1990s and was still its Professor Emeritus of Scottish Architectural History when he died.

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