Glasgow City Plan 3 - Public Questionnaire
Glasgow City Council have produced the attached questionnaire for the public with an interest in the development of the City. It has been designed to be filled in and submitted online. If you would like a paper copy you can contact the City Plan Team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..questionnaire.pdf
Conferences and Discussions
Anti-clockwork Orange?
News emerges today of the possible closure of Glasgows Underground System, "if a £400 million modernisation programme is not approved."Source: Glasgow Herald
"retain the facade, which is the unique part of the building" ?
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/planners-agree-to-controversial-demolition-of-art-deco-garage-1.1005295
Aside from the issues around the change of use for the site of the Botanic Gardens Garage the opinion quoted in the Herald below by Councillor Alex Glass show a scant lack of understanding regarding the holistic importance of a grade A listed building. Councillor Glass sits as the Vice Convener of the GCC Planning Applications Committee. The facade, retained or not is not the the unique part of this building, surely it's the cultural heritage of this building's significance to Glasgow's, and Scotland's pioneering motor heritage which is the critical factor of importance?
"Greater Pollok councillor Alex Glass said the planning committee had to try to find a solution to the problem
posed by the disintegrating structure.
He added: “It is stretching the imagination to say the back of this
building is important.
“If we can manage to retain the facade, which is the unique part of the building, and
compromise by allowing development at the rear, we have at least gone
part of the way.
“I think this is a good compromise. I really do think we need to be pragmatic.”
Members of the planning committee agreed by eight votes to seven to grant full planning permission."
Further information is available here:
Room in the City, April 22-24th
Members may be interested in this conference which is looking at city squares, urban public space, and how they are designed and used.Spatial Agency
Spatial Agency is an ongoing research project that aims to shift the of focus of architectural discourse from one that is centred around the design (= building) and making (= technology) of buildings to one where architecture is understood as a situated and embedded praxis conscious of and working with its social, economic and political context.
In the spirit of Cedric Price the project started with the belief that a building is not necessarily the best solution to an architectural problem. Architecture, and it is easy to forget this, is about a lot more than just objects in space. The project attempts to uncover a second history of architecture, one that looks at other ways that people have operated beyond the building, working on behalf of others as spatial agents. Buildings are of course not excluded, but the project expands its reach to cover all aspects of spatial production - from publications to pedagogy, activism to enabling.
http://www.spatialagency.net/database/
Well worth an explore.
As a member, what are your thoughts on how the New Glasgow Society has or could relate with the organisations on this database?
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Satire
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G.L.A.S. (Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space) a co-operative of architects, designers, writers and teachers engaged in a critique of the contemporary built environment. G.L.A.S. operated from 2001 until 2005.