ABSTRACT
Following the presentation of waterfront regeneration and after describing the general historic background of Glasgow's experience in creating new public places, this chapter analyses three particular locations, through the dual nature of public space framework. The starting point for this research was questioning the view put forward by many writings that new public places are not as public as they could/should be; commentators from around the world argue that places are losing something of their publicness. As argued in the previous chapter, many public places created on post-industrial waterfront share similar characteristics in terms of their development and physical layout. Moreover, they have been built with a similar purpose, i.e. to become places for entertainment, vibrant areas that could reconnect the local populations with their forgotten riverside while also attracting tourists. Although at the beginning of the project, it was intended to look at new public places created on post-industrial waterfronts in two different cities, it became clear after the Star Model was created that a large amount of time has already been dedicated to understanding, conceptualising, defining and modelling the publicness of public space. As a result, for both academic and practical reasons, the research focused only on the city of Glasgow. Apart from testing the viability of the dual nature of public space framework and the Star Model, we also aimed to investigate the recent transformation of the river as part of the broader background of the city's regeneration, a subject, which has not been tackled much since the 1990s (see Garcia 1990). For several reasons (see Chapter 4), three sites were chosen for analysis, located on the Clyde waterfront, i.e. Pacific Quay, Glasgow Harbour and Broomielaw (see Map 6.1).
