Glasgow employs a historical-geographical approach to illuminate the interaction between the multifarious social and spatial forces which have conditioned the processes and patterns of urban growth and change over time in Scotland's principal city. The book is organised into two complementary parts. In the first part, a chronological approach is employed to examine the main agents, processes and patterns underlying the development of the city from its pre-urban origins until the close of the nineteenth century. In the second part, the major issues relating to the socio-spatial development of Glasgow in the twentieth century are the subject of systematic examination.

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements 1. The orgigins of the dear green place 2. The mercantile town 3. The advent of industrial urbanism 4. Urban expansion in the nineteenth century 5. Population and society in the nineteenth century 6. The urban economy 7. Housing the people 8. The government of the city 9. The urban challenge 10. Popular images of the city and its people; References; Subject Index; Place Index

Michael Pacione, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.