Glasgow is being hailed as "the UK's first feminist city" after councillors passed a game-changing town planning motion.Submitted by Green councillor Holly Bruce, the motion states that women should be "central to all aspects of planning, public realm design, policy development and budgets"....
Outlining the concept Derek Dunsire Of Glasgow City Council told Urban Realm: “The first avenue to be taken forward, and which is under construction as we speak, is Sauchiehall Street West from Charing Cross to Rose Street. On that 600m stretch we’ve got 30-odd trees going in at between...
George Street CITIES, REGIONS & BUILT ENVIRONMENT | TRANSPORT | YOUTH AND PUBLIC EMPOWERMENT Framing George Square, the heart of the city, Glasgow City Council has appointed a team of specialist consultants to reimagine George Street, with a design that will respond to and enhance its historical...
Councillor Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council, said: “The Barclays Glasgow Campus is a very significant development for the city and its centre, as well as the wider Clydeside. The opening of the campus is a landmark stage in a process which will see many high-quality new jobs...
city councillor and patron of the arts. It was here that the Glasgow School of Art was housed from 1869 to 1899 until it moved to the new, purpose-built premises designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh on Renfrew Street, just north of Sauchiehall Street. During this time of transition, the ...
Space will be increased on the pavements and free Wi-Fi, intelligent street lighting, trees and cycle lanes will be installed over the next eight years.Talking to The Scotsman, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said: 'The climate emergency is obviously the issue of our age an...
The Glasgow City Council-owned King’s Theatre was opened in 1903 as a sister venue to the considerably older Theatre Royal. The two remain linked today by the fact that, as of 2005, they’re both managed by the Ambassador Theatre Group. By and large purely a receiving theatre, with a ...
on the former site of Foulis, the Assembly and the Newbery Torres, across Renfrew Street, in front ofMackintosh. The new building construction was completed in 2014. Reid takes the name of the last director of the center Dame Seona Reid, and has been funded by the Scottish Funding Council...
Last of the flats on [street X] got pulled down a years back. Me and the boys that use to live there got moved all over Glasgow by the council . . . . [but] we still always met back up on the weekends at the shops (which remained) . . . . Still called ourselves Kimbo Kill...
particularly, the overall transformation of Barcelona into a Smart City was progressing successfully, and it was already widely recognised as a leading case of Smart City initiatives all over Europe. Nevertheless, as we will observe later, after some changes in the City Council of Barcelona and ...