Glasgow – Peter Geoghegan

Glasgow smiles: how the city halved its murders by ‘caring people into change’

By peterPosted on 29th April 2015Posted in Guardian, Scotland, Society and CultureTagged Glasgow, Guardian, VRU

In a squat redbrick community hall in the shadow of a pair of vertiginous north Glasgow tower blocks, half a dozen men sit on plastic chairs around a sturdy wooden table. The carpet is threadbare, the overhead lights harsh. Through shatterproof glass windows, dusk has turned to night. “I can’t get a job anywhere, not with […]

Living in the Shadows of Glasgow’s High Rise Ghettos Before They Get Blown Up

By peterPosted on 21st February 2015Posted in Scotland, viceTagged Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, High rise, Mitch Miller, Red Road

Early last April, a letter arrived at Betty Caw’s neat, pebbledash terrace house directly opposite Glasgow’s towering Red Road flats. “The regeneration of North Glasgow is continuing at great pace and with that in mind I have some exciting news,” began a single page on council headed paper signed by Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow […]