{"title":"Dynamic Housing Transformations: Following the Money","authors":"D. Robertson","doi":"10.46692/9781447349785.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447349785.012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter seeks to update the long-standing narratives that still shape contemporary understandings of Glasgow’s housing. Once the city’s housing was a simple binary, either public or private, either a tenement slum or council block, each sited within spatially and socially demarcated neighbourhoods. Now greater diversity and more complexity exists. In explaining this change the chapter sets itself two challenges. Firstly, to critique and re-appraise the traditional housing narratives, in order to lay out a city-wide housing template. Secondly, to outline how that inherited template has subsequently been reshaped by the financial, political and social contexts brought about by the consequences of the global financial crisis and financialisation, the process which changed housing finance from facilitating credit for home purchase to one increasingly concerned with facilitating returns for global investment. While financialisation offers a useful lens to better explain and understand the new narrative, the inheritances of the 19th and 20th centuries still exert a resonance on Glasgow’s contemporary housing situation.","PeriodicalId":404676,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Glasgow","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114556292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Policy Discourses that Shaped the ‘Transformation’ of Glasgow in the later 20th Century: ‘Overspill’, ‘Redeployment’ and the ‘Culture of Enterprise’","authors":"Chik Collins, I. Levitt","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt6rk5x.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt6rk5x.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter draws on extensive research in government archives to show how Glasgow was affected by a highly discriminatory policy agenda developed within Scotland from the early 1960s. From that time, Glasgow’s industrial decline was actively embraced and accelerated by Scottish Office policy makers as part of a regional economic policy agenda seeking ‘development and growth’ in other parts of Scotland. This agenda, which was sustained for decades, is discussed here as an evolving set of policy discourses – of ‘overspill’, ‘redeployment’ and of ‘enterprise and personal responsibility’. The subsequent embrace by Glasgow’s civic leaders of a markedly post-industrial trajectory reflected their attempt to work within, while also pushing against, this deeply entrenched policy paradigm. Appreciating all of this is essential in considering appropriate policy responses for the city’s future. Currently, the evidence is that it is not sufficiently appreciated – either in Glasgow, or by the Scottish Government in Edinburgh.","PeriodicalId":404676,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Glasgow","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126951848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transforming GlasgowPub Date : 2019-12-18DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0006
M. Livingston, Julie Clark
{"title":"Living in the Urban Renaissance? Opportunity and Challenge for 21st-Century Glasgow","authors":"M. Livingston, Julie Clark","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the rebirth of post-industrial Glasgow as a desirable urban centre, which has undergone a radical change in reputation and profile within a relatively short period. Successful urban boosterist strategies have left the imprint of event- and culture-led regeneration clearly legible on the urban fabric and we review city centre revitalisation, safety and neighbourhood change as factors in an apparently growing appetite for urban living. However, the urban environment is shaped by a combination of strategic planning, national and supranational economic forces. Asking who benefits, as Glasgow grapples with the challenge of economic transition, requires consideration of these wider drivers, including tenure structures, demographic shifts and the decentralisation of poverty. Along with Glasgow’s successes, the vulnerabilities of a consumption-based economy and a relatively elite-orientated development strategy mean that the challenge of how the city will support and protect its most vulnerable citizens remains.","PeriodicalId":404676,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Glasgow","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131170252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new political economy of city-regionalism:","authors":"David Waite","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvt6rk5x.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt6rk5x.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404676,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Glasgow","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133341365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transforming GlasgowPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0004
David Waite
{"title":"The New Political Economy of City-Regionalism: Renewed Steps in Glasgow","authors":"David Waite","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The resurgence of city-regionalism has been a dominant theme in sub-national policymaking over the last decade. Underpinned by narratives of growth engines waiting to be unlocked through greater local control coupled with targeted interventions, city-regions are now a privileged spatial arena in the UK for seeking economic development agreements with higher orders of government. This chapter brings into focus Glasgow’s experience of city-regionalism and notably the re-emphasis brought about by the City Deal. In doing this, multiple political tensions hinging on a series of local, national and UK-wide relationships are sketched out. The chapter - in referencing the wider city-region literature and taking cognisance of the local post-industrial trajectory - poses a series of considerations concerning how and in what form city-regionalism may evolve in Glasgow.","PeriodicalId":404676,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Glasgow","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123889250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}