LEVELLING UP, TALKING DOWN: GREENWASHING, GENTRIFICATION AND GATEKEEPING IN GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL’S APPLICATION TO THE LEVELLING UP FUND. Glasgow City Council is submitting seven bids for projects in the city to the UK Government’s flagship ‘Levelling Up’ fund, a competitive …
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HAS THE VIRUS WON?
Written by Mike Downham, 6th April 2022, with many thanks to the people who fed back to me about the original version of this piece, which has become a collective contribution to discussions about the pandemic. 1 in 11 people …
Glasgow City Council – old wine in new bottles, as usual
A BLOG ON GLASGOW’S LIVEABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS INITIATIVE BY BARRY DALGLEISH Glasgow City Council’s marketing department has been working overtime of late. The local authority has been producing some rather impressive presentation documents – impressive in appearance that is. The content …
Glasgow’s Greenprint for Investment
By Barry Dalgleish and Penny Cole In a flashy online report launched in September 2021, Susan Aitkin told us that COP26 would be “staged against a backdrop of unprecedented threats to the future of our planet and clear warnings of …
Feeding La Minga: building community cooperation within and between nations at COP26
By David Carr Minga n (Quechua). A voluntary agreement between communities to come together to achieve a common purpose, e.g. to build a rope bridge, a road, a government. COP26 fever was upon Glasgow. The ‘Dear Green Place’ was buzzing …
Reflections on Glasgow’s 23rd State of the Economy Conference
Reflections on Glasgow’s 23rd State of the Economy ConferenceBy Martin Avila On Friday the 1st of October Glasgow hosted its 23rd State of the City Economy conference, unsurprisingly in a large corporate hotel chain venue in Glasgow City Centre. The …