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[[Image:Logie_Plaque.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Plaque Remembering the construction of Logie housing estate]]'''Logie''' is a residential area of the City of [[Dundee]], [[Scotland]]. It is located north of Blackness Road, bounded by Blackness Road, Balgay Road, Scott Street and Glenagnes Road. "Logie" in placenames derives from the [[Scottish Gaelic]] ''logan'' or ''lagan'', meaning a hollow.▼
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{{distinguish|Logie, Fife}}
{{infobox UK place
| country = Scotland
| official_name = Logie
| gaelic_name = An Lagan
| scots_name =
| population = 4,666
| pushpin_map = Scotland Dundee
| pushpin_map_caption = Location within [[Dundee City council area]]
| os_grid_reference = NO383304
| coordinates = {{coord|56.461687|-3.002853|display=inline,title}}
| map_type = Scotland
| unitary_scotland = [[Dundee City (council area)|Dundee City]]
| lieutenancy_scotland = [[Dundee]]
| constituency_westminster = [[Dundee West (UK Parliament constituency)|Dundee West]]
| constituency_scottish_parliament = [[Dundee City West (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Dundee City West]]
| post_town = DUNDEE
| postcode_district = DD2
| postcode_area = DD
| dial_code = 01382
}}
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The name ''Logie'' probably represents a [[Pictish]] or [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] toponymic element ''*login'', "ecclesiastical site".<ref name="ClancyLogie">{{cite web |last1=Clancy |first1=Thomas Owen |title=Logie: an ecclesiastical place-name element in eastern Scotland |url=http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/135558/1/135558.pdf |website=University of Glasgow}}</ref>
The main feature of the area is the Logie housing estate, built between [[1919]] and [[1920]] and designed by James Thompson. The estate was the first [[public housing]] estate built in Scotland after the [[First World War]].[[Image:Logie_Housing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Typical Logie Housing]] It was one of the first in Europe to have a [[district heating]] scheme, supplied by a boilerhouse that also provided a public wash-house for the surrounding area. Poor insulation of the supply pipes meant that the snow on the pavements melted.▼
==History==
The housing consists mostly of three-room (living room and two bedrooms, plus kitchen and bathroom) and two-room (living room and one bedroom, kitchen and bathroom) in blocks of four flats, two upper and two lower, each with its own front door of the type described in England as a "[[maisonette]]". As well as communal drying greens, the houses each have a small [[allotment]]. The district heating scheme was closed in the late 1970s and individual [[central heating]] installed in each house.▼
The Logie, or Lochee, estate belonged to several inter-marrying families, documented from at least 1660. These included the [[Wedderburn baronets]]. The mansion house was large, and was [[Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain|demolished in 1905]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Elliot|first1=Alexander|title="Lochee" - As it was and is|date=1911|chapter-url=http://www.fdca.org.uk/Lochee07.html|accessdate=7 July 2022|chapter=7}}</ref>
==Logie Housing Estate==
▲The main feature of the area is the Logie [[housing estate]], built between
[[File:Logie Housing.jpg|thumb|left|Typical Logie Housing]]
▲The housing consists mostly of three-room (living room and two bedrooms, plus kitchen and bathroom) and two-room (living room and one bedroom, kitchen and bathroom) in blocks of four flats, two upper and two lower, each with its own front door of the type described in England as a "[[Apartment#Maisonette|maisonette]]". As well as communal drying greens, the houses each have a small [[Allotment (gardening)|allotment]], although many of these have now been grassed over. The district heating scheme was closed in the late 1970s and individual [[central heating]] installed in each house.
The estate is divided by a wide tree-lined [[dual carriageway]], Logie Avenue, which was equipped with a view-point at its upper end next to Victoria Park. The estate was designated as an "outstanding" [[conservation area]] in 1991. The conservation area designation says of the houses that "the facades are enlivened by simple and effective brick detailing. The care taken over the detailing of the garden fences, gates, address plates, railings, steps and paths give the area a wonderful unity which is still intact today."
==Logie School and Logie Poorhouse==
[[File:Logie Central School Dundee.jpg|thumb|left|Logie Central School Dundee]]
Adjacent to the housing estate, on the corner of Blackness Road and Glenagnes Road, stood Logie [[secondary school]], later [[Harris Academy]] Annexe, designed by C.G. Soutar and opened in
[[File:Logie Central School Gates Dundee.jpg|thumb|Logie Central School Gates Dundee]]
==Political representation==
With the new Single Transferable Vote system in place, Bill Campbell (SNP), Richard McCready (Labour), Vari McDonald (SNP) and Fraser McPherson (Liberal Democrat) all represent the Logie area as part of the West End ward.
==References==
{{Reflist}}
Dundee, An Illustrated Architectural Guide, A McKean & D. Walker, [[Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland|RIAS]] 1993 {{ISBN
Description of Conservation Area, Dundee City Council 2005
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{{Areas of Dundee}}
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