ABSTRACT
In any review of urban regeneration activity it is unusual not to read of Glasgow's revival in the 1980s. The change in fortune was part of the wider process of urban regeneration which occurred throughout the Clydeside Conurbation, the metropolitan area centred on Glasgow. This analysis, however, is confined to an examination of the regeneration process within Glasgow city centre (Figure 12.1), which has traditionally been the focus of private sector development activity in the Clydeside Conurbation. The chapter specifically examines the contribution of wider strategic policy to the regeneration of the city centre and considers the effects of public sector intervention within the most favourable microenvironment for private sector development throughout the whole Clydeside Conurbation. Before 1970, development activity in Glasgow city centre, with few exceptions, was promoted by private interests. However, one of the effects of the social, economic and environmental decline experienced on Clydeside between 1945 and 1970 was a need for public sector bodies to stimulate the development process. Despite continuing private sector interest, this need was also apparent in Glasgow city centre, both in respect of certain types of development and particular locations of a rundown nature.
