Editing Glasgow (section)

===War years and regeneration===
[[File:A Middle East Soldier Revisits Britain- Life in Wartime Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1943 D15608.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|[[Sauchiehall Street]] during [[World War II]] (1943)]]

The 20th century witnessed both decline and renewal in the city. After [[World War I]], the city suffered from the impact of the [[Post–World War I recession]] and from the later [[Great Depression in the United Kingdom|Great Depression]], this also led to a rise of radical socialism and the "[[Red Clydeside]]" movement. The city had recovered by the outbreak of [[World War II]]. The city saw [[Strategic bombing|aerial bombardment]] by the [[Luftwaffe]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/29/a4095029.shtml |title=Blitz in Glasgow |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815210112/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/29/a4095029.shtml |archive-date=15 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> during the [[Clydebank Blitz]], during the war, then grew through the post-war boom that lasted through the 1950s. By the 1960s, growth of industry in countries like Japan and [[West Germany]], weakened the once pre-eminent position of many of the city's industries. As a result of this, Glasgow entered a lengthy period of relative economic decline and rapid de-industrialisation, leading to high unemployment, [[urban decay]], population decline, [[welfare dependency]] and poor health for the city's inhabitants. There were active attempts at regeneration of the city, when the Glasgow Corporation published its controversial ''[[Bruce Report]]'', which set out a comprehensive series of initiatives aimed at turning round the decline of the city. The report led to a huge and radical programme of rebuilding and regeneration efforts that started in the mid-1950s and lasted into the late 1970s. This involved the mass demolition of the city's infamous slums and their replacement with large suburban housing estates and tower blocks.<ref name="Staples">{{cite web |url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=986122002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050119043309/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=986122002 |archive-date=19 January 2005 |title=Secret plot to strip Glasgow of influence |website=The Scotsman |location=UK |date=5 September 2002 |access-date=11 December 2007 |first=John |last=Staples}}</ref>

The city invested heavily in roads infrastructure, with an extensive system of arterial roads and motorways that bisected the central area. There are also accusations that the [[Scottish Office]] had deliberately attempted to undermine Glasgow's economic and political influence in post-war Scotland by diverting inward investment in new industries to other regions during the [[Silicon Glen]] boom and creating the [[New towns#United Kingdom|new towns]] of Cumbernauld, Glenrothes, Irvine, Livingston and [[East Kilbride]], dispersed across the [[Scottish Lowlands]] to halve the city's population base.<ref name="Staples"/> By the late 1980s, there had been a significant resurgence in Glasgow's economic fortunes. The "[[Glasgow's miles better]]" campaign, launched in 1983, and opening of the [[Burrell Collection]] in 1983 and [[Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre]] in 1985 facilitated Glasgow's new role as a European centre for business services and finance and promoted an increase in tourism and inward investment.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7468870.stm |title=Why Glasgow was 'miles better' |work=BBC News |date=23 June 2008 |access-date=30 July 2008 |first=Reevel |last=Alderson |archive-date=22 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122084724/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7468870.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> The latter continues to be bolstered by the legacy of the city's [[Glasgow Garden Festival]] in 1988, its status as [[European Capital of Culture]] in 1990,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://uneecc.org/european-capitals-of-culture/history/ |title=European Capital of Culture |publisher=UNEECC.org |access-date=3 August 2021 |archive-date=17 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717134431/https://uneecc.org/european-capitals-of-culture/history/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and concerted attempts to diversify the city's economy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://openscotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/27153210/10 |title=Interim Evaluation of the Cities Growth Fund: A Report to the Scottish Executive&nbsp;– Appendix 4: Glasgow |publisher=[[Scottish Government]] |date=March 2007 |access-date=26 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302023804/http://openscotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/27153210/10 |archive-date=2 March 2012}}</ref> However, it is the industrial heritage that serves as key tourism enabler.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Butler |first1=Richard |last2=Curran |first2=Ross |last3=O'Gorman |first3=Kevin D. |date=1 September 2013 |title=Pro-Poor Tourism in a First World Urban Setting: Case Study of Glasgow Govan |journal=International Journal of Tourism Research |volume=15 |issue=5 |pages=443–457 |doi=10.1002/jtr.1888 |issn=1522-1970}}</ref> Wider economic revival has persisted and the ongoing [[Urban renewal|regeneration]] of inner-city areas, including the large-scale [[Clyde Waterfront Regeneration]], has led to more affluent people moving back to live in the centre of Glasgow, fuelling allegations of [[gentrification]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_41198_en.pdf |title=Housing regeneration in Glasgow: Gentrification and upward neighbourhood trajectories in a post-industrial city |publisher=eSharp |year=2006 |access-date=10 July 2008 |first=Zhan |last=McIntyre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910115209/http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_41198_en.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2008, the city was listed by [[Lonely Planet]] as one of the world's top 10 tourist cities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/oct/15/glasgow-scotland |title=Lonely Planet guide rates Glasgow as one of the world's top 10 cities |access-date=15 October 2008 |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=Severin |last=Carrell |date=15 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119015641/http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/oct/15/glasgow-scotland |archive-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>