1. GLASGOW URBAN CHANGE & MANAGEMENT
HIGHER GEOGRAPHY
GLASGOW URBAN CHANGE & MANAGEMENT

2. CHANGES IN THE CBD Gentrification of the Merchant City Impact?
Italian Centre
Gentrification of the Merchant City
Development of high class flats
High class shopping areas
High class restaurants
Impact?
City Halls
Increasing CBD population
Renovation of historic properties
Multiplier effect – wealthy young popn. and high class shopping attracts entertainment facilities, etc.
Babbity Bowtsers

3. CHANGES IN THE CBD High Class housing
Former GPO building (flats at rear)
9 George Square

4. CHANGES IN THE CBD Preservation of historic buildings
City Halls & The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs
£15 refurbishment, re/opened 2006
Piping Centre, Cowcaddens
Façade retention,
Ingram Street
George Square

5. CHANGES IN THE CBD Modern office developments
Sometimes generates conflict with adjacent historic properties
St. Vincent Street
Church
Bothwell
Street
St. Vincent
Street

6. CHANGES IN THE CBD Ad
Traffic Management
Bus lanes
One Way system

7. CHANGES IN THE CBD Shopping
CBD had to address threat from out-of town shopping centres e.g. Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort, etc.
Cheaper rent and often larger store spaces
More parking
Easier access

8. CHANGES IN THE CBD Shopping
Glasgow being marketed as major UK shopping destination.
Buchanan Galleries attracts flagship stores.
Major redevelopment of this part of town, and further expansion planned
Glasgow has actually suffered very little from out-of-town competition
Designer labels in high class centres e.g. Italian Centre & Princes Square

9. CHANGES IN THE CBD Entertainment & Leisure
Large no. hotels have been opened in recent years, due to:-
Growth in tourism – city breaks to see cultural & historic sites or to for shopping.
Venues like SECC attract major conferences to Glasgow.
Growth in festivals

10. CHANGES IN THE CBD Entertainment & Leisure
Major cinema complexes (but closure of smaller cinemas like ABC, Odeon)
Festivals – music, film, art, etc. attract many visitors
Wide range of concert venues, pubs, restaurants, clubs – new venues open regularly

11. Urban Regeneration Schemes in Glasgow
1960s to present day

12. 1960-1970s – Comprehensive Development Areas
29 CDAs across Glasgow, e.g. Gorbals, Cowcaddens, Townhead, Springburn.
Demolition of tenements and replacement with high-rise flats
Hutchensontown
1961
Townhead,
1971

13. 1960-1970s – Comprehensive Development Areas
Lowered population density by 60%
Surplus population moved to peripheral housing estates (e.g. Castlemilk), overspill towns such as Johnstone & New Towns, e.g. East Kilbride & Cumbernauld
Glasgow’s population greatly reduced
Problems of high-rise housing?

14. 1970s-1990s – Urban Renewal Schemes e.g. GEAR
Refurbish old housing rather than demolishing it
Involving local people in decision making e.g. housing associations
GEAR – Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal project –
Parkhead, Bridgeton, Shettleston, Dalmarnock area
Achieved - better housing
New jobs
Better environment
New transport & shopping facilities
New sport and leisure facilities
Beardmore munitions factory

15. GEAR Crownpoint Sports Complex Annick St. Industrial Estate,
Shettleston (created 300 jobs)
Parkhead Forge
Shopping Centre
Parkhead Cross

16. GEAR £500 million invested. Funding stopped 1987.
Enormous environmental improvements, but still high unemployment as traditional local industries continued to close, and some poor quality housing remains.
Much of this area will be transformed by the Athletes’ Village for the Commonwealth Games in 2014 – housing for sale and rent afterwards.
National Indoor Sports Arena
(next to Celtic Park)
Athletes’ Village

17. 1990s onwards See population graph p.18
Dramatic fall in population due to
slum clearance programmes
industrial decline
more recent movement to suburbs beyond the city boundaries e.g. Bearsden, Newton Mearns, etc.
Problems for city?
High unemployment
Loss of taxes to pay for services
Glasgow Garden Festival,
1988
European City of Culture, 1990

18. ‘NEW’ GORBALS
Many developments have taken place to reverse the trend of population loss & industrial decline.
E.g. Gorbals – poor quality flats and high-rise developments of CDA being replaced with modern flats for sale and rent.
1940s –100,000
1990s – 9000
2010 – 90,000?

19. PERIPHERAL ESTATES - Castlemilk
Glenwood Business Centre
Community Regeneration
Centre

20. RIVERSIDE REGENERATION
See Glasgow Riverside Powerpoint

21. INNER CITY REDEVELOPMENT
GLASGOW HARBOUR PROJECT

22. Glasgow Harbour Masterplan

23. Meadowside Granary
The site – past and present

24. £1.2 billion project
Glasgow Harbour Ltd, Glasgow
City & Scottish Enterprise
Glasgow
Timescale:
Aim: To regenerate 130 acres of derelict former shipyards and docks.
To create a residential district, retail and leisure district, commercial district and areas of public open space.
Creation of over 10,000 jobs (construction and finished development).
Attract people back to live in city, thus increasing council tax income from homes and businesses.

25. Residential district
2500 new homes

26. Retail and leisure district Riverside Museum (new Museum of transport)
Due 2009, work started late
2007
                      
Glasgow River Festival - July

27. High quality shopping destination also planned, plus supermarket
Approx. 42% of site will be developed
as new parks with river walkways and
cycle paths, public open spaces and
landscaped areas

28. Transport Infrastructure Improvements
Clydeside Expressway being lowered to remove ‘barrier’ between West End & Glasgow Harbour, and redeveloped to improve access into Glasgow Harbour at Partick.
New bridge over
River Kelvin

29. Transport Infrastructure Improvements
Clyde Fastlink
‘State of the art’ public transport system running 6 min. interval service from city centre, past SECC to Glasgow Harbour. Dedicated bus route offering a tram-like experience. Vehicles separate from other traffic over most of the 6km route.
New Partick Interchange railway and subway station – the station serving Glasgow Harbour

30. Infilling Yorkhill Basin August 2006 - site of Riverside Museum
Old railway embankment along South Street removed where it passed Glasgow
Harbour site – seen as a ‘barrier’, restricting access and views to the harbour
Development.

31. See www.glasgowharbour.com www.clydewaterfront.com
Proposed commercial development
Keen to recognise & preserve history – employ historians and archaeologists and are salvaging & recycling architectural features e.g. signage from granaries, cobblestones and maritime paraphernalia
See