 This involved the mass demolition of the city's infamous slums and their replacement with large suburban housing estates and tower blocks.The city invested heavily in roads infrastructure, with an extensive system of arterial roads and motorways that bisected the central area.There are also accusations that the Scottish Office had deliberately attempted to undermine Glasgow's economic and political influence in post-war Scotland by diverting inward investment in new industries to other regions during the Silicon Glen boom and creating the new towns of Cumbernauld, Glenrothes, Irvine, Livingston and East Kilbride, dispersed across the Scottish Lowlands to halve the city's population base.