ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the rehabilitation of older housing areas in the city of Glasgow over a decade, from 1974 to 1985. For two decades, from 1955–75, Glasgow became a paradigm case of the declining central city in a declining metropolitan region. The economic base of the city is still contracting and population decline is only now reducing to minimal levels, but since 1974 the city has become the locus of a major rehabilitation programme. Within the broad theoretical framework set out above, the chapter tells the 'Glasgow Story' of change in the last decade. It represents a synthesis of a series of studies undertaken in the City since 1975. Urban change in Glasgow has seldom been smooth or gradual. The residents who purchased owner-occupied units ranged from owners moving with substantial assets and high incomes to low-income large families also moving within the system. First-time buyers (FTBs) were spread across all the price deciles except the most expensive.
