ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on Glasgow's experience of 'place-making' and 'place-breaking' as the local administration has striven for the past three decades to create new public spaces and change the city's identity from declining industrial centre to a more vibrant urban environment. It focuses on the banks of the River Clyde, and aims to uncover to what extent Glasgow's transformation into post-industrial city has been centred on place and people. Glasgow is an example of Second Tier city that had struggled for many decades to revert the trends of population and income loss, high levels of unemployment and high inequality. The Clyde riverside, which could become one of the main thoroughfares of Glasgow and its central public space, is still highly disconnected from the central area, although only five-minute walk from the main business and commercial districts of the city. The chapter explains the reasons behind this and zoom in on three case study areas: Glasgow Harbour, Pacific Quay and Broomielaw.
