Thirty years after Glasgow turned towards regeneration, indicators of its built environment, its health, economic performance and its quality of life remain below UK averages. This interdisciplinary study examines the ongoing transformation of Glasgow as it has transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city during the 21st Century. Looking at diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration, and economic and social change, it considers the evolving lived experiences of Glaswegians.
Contributors explore the necessary actions required to secure the gains of regeneration and create an economically competitive, socially just and sustainable city, establishing a theory that moves beyond post-industrialism that serves as a model for similar cities globally.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli
Introduction: Transforming Post-Industrial Glasgow
Keith Kintrea and Rebecca Madgin
Part 1
Chapter 1: The Policy Discourses that Shaped the ‘Transformation’ of Glasgow in the Later 20th Century: ‘Overspill’, ‘Redeployment’ and the ‘Culture of Enterprise’
Chik Collins and Ian Levitt
Chapter 2: Escaping the Shadow of the Upas Tree
Stuart Patrick, Gordon Kennedy and David MacLeod
Chapter 3: The New Political Economy of City-regionalism: Renewed Steps in Glasgow
David Waite
Chapter 4: Stopped in its Tracks? Transport’s Contribution to Glasgow’s Development
Iain Docherty
Part 2
Chapter 5: Living in the Urban Renaissance? Opportunity and challenge for 21st Century Glasgow
Mark Livingston and Julie Clark
Chapter 6: A Sick City in a Sick Country
David Baruffati, Mhairi Mackenzie, David Wals, and Bruce Whyte
Chapter 7: Dynamic Housing Transformations: Following the Money
Douglas Robertson
Chapter 8: ‘New’ Migrations Transforming the City: East European Settlement in Glasgow
Rebecca Kay and Paulina Trevena
Chapter 9: Changing Places and Evolving Activism: Communities in Post-Industrial Glasgow
Steve Rolfe, Claire Bynner and Annette Hastings
Part 3
Chapter 10: What once was Old is New Again: Placemaking and Transformational Regeneration in Glasgow
James T. White
Chapter 11: A Place for Urban Conservation? The Changing Values of Glasgow’s Built Heritage
Rebecca Madgin
Chapter 12: Revisiting the Creative City: Culture and Regeneration in post-industrial Glasgow
Venda Louise Pollock
Chapter 13: Our ‘Dear Green Place’: Glasgow’s Transformation from Industrial Powerhouse to Sustainable City
Larissa Naylor, Ellie Murtagh and Hugh Kippen
Conclusion: Beyond the Post-Industrial – Narratives of Time and Place
Rebecca Madgin and Keith Kintrea
