Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Scotland: Glasgow, City of. People Make Glasgow. Glasgow Digital Library home page. Glasgow – Travel guides at Wikivoyage. Glasgow Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland, with a population of about 600,000 in the city itself and over 2 million if the surrounding towns of the Clydeside conurbation are taken into account. Located at the west end of Scotland's Central Belt on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow's historical importance as Scotland's main industrial centre has been challenged by decades of change and various regeneration efforts. Today the third largest city in the entire United Kingdom by population, it remains one of the nation's key economic centres outside London.
In recent years, Glasgow has been awarded the European titles of City of Culture (1990), City of Architecture and Design (1999) and Capital of Sport (2003). In 2008, Glasgow became the 2nd Scottish city to join the UNESCO Creative Cities initiative when it was named as a UNESCO City of Music. Glasgow will be the host city for the Commonwealth Games from 23 July to 3 August 2014, see Glasgow 2014 for details.
Understand[edit] Glasgow City Council Homepage. Glasgow. Glasgow is Scotland's largest city and is renowned for its culture, style and the friendliness of its people. Glasgow offers a blend of internationally-acclaimed museums and galleries, stunning architecture, vibrant nightlife, fantastic shopping and a diverse array of restaurants and bars. Vibrant and energetic, Glasgow enjoys a year-round buzz with an arts scene that regularly produces cutting-edge productions and attracts high-profile exhibitions that led to the city being crowned European City of Culture in 1990.
Glasgow was also the UK's City of Architecture and Design in 1999 and its architecture is an attraction in itself. The city centre has countless impressive Victorian structures and then there are the unique masterpieces of one of the city's most celebrated sons, the legendary architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The city has a long-standing reputation for its live music scene and is very well off too in terms of city parks.
Glasgow city of reality. Humane irreverence more than the big ships, Glasgows greatest export It was travel writer H.V. Morton who called Glasgow the city of reality in his 1929 In Search of Scotland. That hasn't changed as, essentially, Glaswegians havent changed. They are down to earth people with both the hard edge and the humour that that phrase suggests. Theres nowhere quite like Glasgow. Its real. It makes an impact. A history of humour The roots of this probably originate in the vast influx of Highlanders and Irish into the city in the days of the Industrial Revolution when the ancient, medieval university town of 2000 inhabitants mushroomed along the banks of the River Clyde to become the greatest ship-building city in the world and the Second City (after London) in the days of the British Empire. Enhancing urban spaces This is not a bad achievement for a city whose traditional industry is all but gone and which today has a population of just under 600,000 making it the fourth largest city in the UK.
Glasgow Guide: Glasgow Maps: Map of Central Glasgow. Subway | SPT. TUNNELS UNDER GLASGOW. As befits a city containing over a million inhabitants, Glasgow is served by two ordinary underground railways and a tube, as well as by a remarkable tunnel system under the docks and the River Clyde. It is, however, not altogether surprising that Glasgow should have obtained her first underground railway over twenty years after London, for in proportion to the size of the place, the Glasgow streets are more regular and better planned, at any rate on the north side of the river, than those of London.
London, too, was the pioneer where underground transport was concerned, and many cities watched results in London before committing themselves to similar enterprises. Glasgow rests on geological strata of considerable variety, and the builders of her underground communications were faced with difficulties unknown to those who dug their way through the unchanging London clay. Beneath Glasgow they had to contend with anything from hard rock to quicksand.
Work on the "Covered Way" Museums. Untitled. Homepage, Merchant City Glasgow.