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Title Transforming Glasgow : beyond the post-industrial city / edited by Keith Kintrea and Rebecca Madgin
Published Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents List of maps, tables, figures and boxes -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: transforming post-industrial Glasgow -- moving beyond the epic and the toxic -- Part I -- 1. The policy discourses that shaped the 'transformation' of Glasgow in the later 20th century: 'overspill', 'redeployment' and the 'culture of enterprise' -- 2. Escaping the shadow of the upas tree -- 3. The new political economy of city-regionalism: renewed steps in Glasgow -- 4. Stopped in its tracks? Transport's contribution to Glasgow's development -- Part II -- 5. Living in the urban renaissance? Opportunity and challenge for 21st-century Glasgow -- 6. A sick city in a sick country -- 7. Dynamic housing transformations: following the money -- 8. 'New' migrations transforming the city: East European settlement in Glasgow -- 9. Changing places and evolving activism: communities in post-industrial Glasgow -- Part III -- 10. What once was old is new again: placemaking and transformational regeneration in Glasgow -- 11. A place for urban conservation? The changing values of Glasgow's built heritage -- 12. Revisiting the creative city: culture and regeneration in post-industrial Glasgow -- 13. Our 'Dear Green Place': Glasgow's transformation from industrial powerhouse to sustainable city -- Conclusion: beyond the post-industrial -- narratives of time and place -- Index
Summary Using a wide-range of interdisciplinary perspectives which examine the diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration and economic and social change, this text explores the transition of Glasgow from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed January 29, 2020)
Subject Urban policy -- Scotland -- Glasgow
Economic history
Social conditions
Urban policy
SUBJECT Glasgow (Scotland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81039926
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Economic conditions
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Social conditions
Subject Scotland -- Glasgow
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
Author Kintrea, Keith, editor.
Madgin, Rebecca, editor.
ISBN 9781447349785
1447349784