ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a case study of the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal (GEAR) scheme. GEAR is taken as an example of ‘Public Investment Planning’ in a ‘derelict’ area with severe economic and social problems. The GEAR project was launched in May 1976 as a multi-agency partnership between a range of public sector organizations, with the Scottish Development Agency (SDA) taking on a coordinating role. The aim of the project was nothing less than to bring about ‘the comprehensive social, economic and environmental regeneration of the East End (of Glasgow) and create conditions for the development of a balanced and thriving community’. The project formally ended in March 1987.
