Badmouthing Glasgow

Posted on | June 1, 2007 | 1 Comment

Nick Booth, of podnosh.com, has pointed me towards a DEMOS report on Glasgow called The Dreaming City (what a great title – much better than Glasgow’s Miles Better), although in fact it is a report on the whole topic of city regeneration using Glasgow as an example. I shall be reading it over the weekend, but on first glance through it looks a well-written and very readable paper.

Pity, then, that some in the city have been so quick to badmouth the report – some of the criticisms I have seen smack of the worst kind of anti-intellectualism. I’ll come back to it once I have read it properly.

One of the authors of the report, I note, is Gerry Hassan, someone I have mentioned before.

Thanks, Nick.

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