ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Glasgow experience, and the pivotal role that the civic bureaucracy came to play in implementing urban strategy during this time. It explores Glasgow's carefully nurtured sense of civic cohesion became increasingly fragile as the new century progressed. There were two major contributory factors to this process. The first related to the sheer scale of the municipal function and fear that the rapid expansion of individual departments was causing control to fragment within the corporation; and there was a second political factor relating to the integrity of the municipal function and perceptions of fragmentation. The chapter reviews the status of the municipal managers had long reflected public confidence in Glasgow and the corporation, which had been relatively buoyant prior to the war but became increasingly depressed thereafter. From the nineteenth century, officials had worked in tandem with the civic leadership, and personal and political connections could be close.
