ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the particular ways in which the dual city idea has been used there, focuses on academic studies, media coverage of Glasgow's regeneration and local authority programmes for the ‘deprived segments’. The dual city idea has gradually entered debates about urban polarisation in Europe. A number of articles appeared in both the Glasgow-based press and national press which applied the dual city idea with renewed vigour. By the mid-to late 1980s, when Glasgow's regeneration was well under way, opponents of the regeneration strategy and media commentators alike did not have far to look to highlight the other side of culture city. Glasgow is the major city within the Strathclyde Region of central Scotland. Given the rigour, the well-established acceptance of the methodology, and the availability of the analysis, the Strathclyde Region approach to measuring the extent and distribution of poverty and multiple deprivations has been adopted.
