Crown Street was the principal street of a 6ha sector of the Gorbals in Glasgow once occupied by traditional tenement but rebuilt on isolated blocks when these proved disastrous in the 60s. CZWG won a competition for re-planning the area (for the second time since the Second World War), employing a strategy that reversed the conventional hierarchy of ground and narrower streets and introduced oases of private communal gardens into the centre of urban blocks. Some 1,200 new residential units were proposed in addition to commercial development. Maida Vale, in London, was the inspiration for the concept, and the scale of the communal gardens were large relative to the scale of the buildings. For implementation an outline planning permission was gained for the streets, blocks and infrastructure with a single side of a garden being the smallest development tranche for a sole developer, the communal gardens were unusually initially sponsored by the Development Agency to achieve early maturity.