A04 → Doocots






On the outskirts of the city center in Glasgow, there is a spread of structures built to nest and breed domesticated pigeons; they are called Doocots. They are mostly described as twenty-foot-tall towers made from salvaged materials and finished in disguised colors. Doocots are mostly owned by working-class Glaswegians, as a culture where socialist areas rarely have private gardens or owned green spaces

There are many unused phone booths across the city center that can be reutilized as dwellings for the birds. If so, it would be great and welcoming for the non-humans to inhabit the city



references:
Hwang, Joyce. 2013. ‘Living Among Pests - Designing the Biosynthetic City’. Next Nature. https://www.nextnature.net/story/2013/living-among-pests-designing-the-biosynthetic-city. Stuart, Douglas. 2022. ‘Douglas Stuart on the Defiant Spirit of Glasgow’s Doocots, Private Pigeon Lofts on Public Land’. Literary Hub (blog). 6 April 2022. https://lithub.com/douglas-stuart-on-the-defiant-spirit-of-glasgows-doocots-private-pigeon-lofts-on-public-land/.