ABSTRACT
Glasgow has proved a resilient city. Keating (1988) referred to it as ‘the city that refused to die’. A great industrial city of the nineteenth century, it suffered prolonged deindustrialisation during the twentieth century and only began to become ‘miles better’ during the 1980s. The twentyfirst century sees the city remerging with a new economic base in knowledge-intensive services, such as finance and the cultural and media industries; retail, tourism and education are also significant components of its new economy.
