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Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement close to [[Glasgow Cathedral]] and descending to the [[River Clyde]] to become the largest seaport in Scotland, and tenth largest by tonnage in Britain. Expanding from the [[medieval]] [[Archbishop of Glasgow|bishopric]] and episcopal [[burgh]] (subsequently [[royal burgh]]), and the later establishment of the [[University of Glasgow]] in the 15th century, it became a major centre of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]] in the 18th century. From the 18th century onwards, the city also grew as one of Britain's main hubs of oceanic trade with [[British America|North America]] and the [[British West Indies|West Indies]]; soon followed by the [[Orient]], [[India]], and [[China]]. With the onset of the [[Industrial Revolution]], the population and economy of Glasgow and the surrounding region expanded rapidly to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of chemicals, textiles and engineering; most notably in the [[shipbuilding]] and [[Naval architecture|marine engineering]] industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was the "Second City of the [[British Empire]]" for much of the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian era]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/victorian/trails_victorian_glasgow.shtml |title=Victorian Glasgow |access-date=14 September 2010 |publisher=BBC History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514172952/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/victorian/trails_victorian_glasgow.shtml |archive-date=14 May 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/AboutGlasgow/History/The+Second+City.htm |title=About Glasgow: The Second City of the Empire&nbsp;– the 19th century |access-date=9 July 2007 |publisher=Glasgow City Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402171109/http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/AboutGlasgow/History/The%2BSecond%2BCity.htm |archive-date=2 April 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Fraser |first=W H |url=http://www.theglasgowstory.com/storyd.php |title=Second City of The Empire: 1830s to 1914 |access-date=7 January 2008 |publisher=University of Glasgow |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105124204/http://www.theglasgowstory.com/storyd.php |archive-date=5 January 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=McIlvanney |first=W |url=http://www.scotland.org/about/innovation-and-creativity/features/culture/vibrant6-glasgow.html |title=Glasgow&nbsp;– city of reality |access-date=7 January 2008 |publisher=Scotland&nbsp;– the official online gateway |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204064459/http://www.scotland.org/about/innovation-and-creativity/features/culture/vibrant6-glasgow.html |archive-date=4 December 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

 

 

 

==Etymology and heraldry==

[[File:A Middle East Soldier Revisits Britain- Life in Wartime Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1943 D15608.jpg|thumb|right|170px|[[Sauchiehall Street]] during [[World War II]] (1943)]]

 

 

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>

In 2008 the city was ranked at 43 for Personal Safety in the [[Mercer (consulting firm)|Mercer]] index of top 50 safest cities in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1307990 |title=Quality of living global city rankings&nbsp;– Mercer survey |access-date=10 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318052855/http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1307990 |archive-date=18 March 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Mercer report was specifically looking at Quality of Living, yet by 2011 within Glasgow, certain areas were (still) "failing to meet the Scottish Air Quality Objective levels for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter (PM10)".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/environment/air_quality |title=Air quality &#124; The Glasgow Indicators Project |publisher=Understandingglasgow.com |access-date=25 March 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205192534/http://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/environment/air_quality |archive-date=5 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

 

 

==Government and politics==

Although Glasgow [[Municipal corporation|Corporation]] had been a pioneer in the [[Municipal socialism|municipal socialist]] movement from the late-nineteenth century, since the [[Representation of the People Act 1918]], Glasgow increasingly supported [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] ideas and politics at a national level. The [[Politics of Glasgow|city council]] was controlled by the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] for over thirty years, since the decline of the [[Progressives (Scotland)|Progressives]]. Since 2007, when local government elections in Scotland began to use the [[single transferable vote]] rather than the [[First-past-the-post voting|first-past-the-post system]], the dominance of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] within the city started to decline. As a result of the [[2017 United Kingdom local elections]], the [[Scottish National Party|SNP]] was able to form a minority administration ending Labour's thirty-seven years of uninterrupted control.<ref>{{cite web|title=Councillor Eva Bolander chosen as Glasgow's Lord Provost|url=https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=21216|website=Glasgow City Council|access-date=20 May 2017|language=en|date=18 May 2017}}</ref>

 

 

[[Industrial action]] at the shipyards gave rise to the "[[Red Clydeside]]" epithet. During the 1930s, Glasgow was the main base of the [[Independent Labour Party]]. Towards the end of the twentieth century, it became a centre of the struggle against the [[Poll tax (Great Britain)|poll tax]]; which was introduced in Scotland a whole year before the rest of the United Kingdom and also served as the main base of the [[Scottish Socialist Party]], another left-wing political party in Scotland. The city has not had a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP since the [[1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election|1982 Hillhead by-election]], when the [[Social Democratic Party|SDP]] took the seat, which was in Glasgow's most affluent area. The fortunes of the Conservative Party continued to decline into the twenty-first century, winning only one of the 79 councillors on Glasgow City Council in [[2012 Glasgow City Council election|2012]], despite having been the controlling party (as the [[Progressives (Scotland)|Progressives]]) from 1969 to 1972 when Sir Donald Liddle was the last non-Labour [[Lord Provost of Glasgow|Lord Provost]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSS00035 |title=Sir Donald Liddle |date=2004 |website=The Glasgow Story |access-date=19 February 2018}}</ref>

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Since the [[United Kingdom Census 2001]] the population decline has been reversed. The population was static for a time; but due to migration from other parts of Scotland as well as immigration from overseas, the population has begun to grow. The population of the city council area was 593,245 in 2011<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistical Bulletin |url=http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release1a/rel1asb.pdf |publisher=National Records of Scotland |access-date=17 October 2013 |date=17 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017045500/http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release1a/rel1asb.pdf |archive-date=17 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and around 2,300,000 people live in the Glasgow [[travel to work area]].<ref name=spt>{{cite web |url=http://www.spt.co.uk/Publications/interchange/issue07.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613072504/http://www.spt.co.uk/Publications/interchange/issue07.html |archive-date=13 June 2007 |title=Minister backs SPT on White Paper |date=September 2004 |website=Interchange Issue 7 |publisher=Strathclyde Partnership for Transport |access-date=9 July 2007}}</ref> This area is defined as consisting of over 10% of residents travelling into Glasgow to work and is without fixed boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/01/15950/15151 |title=Review of Scotland's Cities&nbsp;– Transport within the City and the City-Region |publisher=Scottish Executive |access-date=12 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012032819/http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/01/15950/15151 |archive-date=12 October 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Sighthill, Glasgow|Sighthill]] was home to Scotland's largest [[asylum seeker]] community but the area is now regenerated as part of the Youth Olympic Games bid.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nicoll |first1=Vivienne |title=Starting gun sounds for regeneration of Sighthill |url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/starting-gun-sounds-for-regeneration-of-sighthill-158767n.23892373 |website=The Evening Times |date=8 April 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114753/http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/starting-gun-sounds-for-regeneration-of-sighthill-158767n.23892373 |archive-date=26 August 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

 

 

==Culture==

{{Main|Media in Glasgow}}

[[File:BBC Scotland 2.JPG|thumb|[[Pacific Quay]] is the home of the headquarters of Scotland's main broadcaster, [[BBC Scotland]], based at [[BBC Pacific Quay]]]]

 

 

 

Various radio stations are also located in Glasgow. [[BBC Radio Scotland]], the national radio broadcaster for Scotland, is located in the BBC's Glasgow headquarters alongside its [[BBC Radio nan Gaidheal|Gaelic-language sister station]], which is also based in [[Stornoway]]. [[Bauer Radio]] owns the principal commercial radio stations in Glasgow: [[Clyde 1]] and [[Greatest Hits Radio Glasgow & The West]], which can reach over 2.3&nbsp;million listeners.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmediascotland.com/articles/1261/10052007/bbc_celebrating_radio_high_in_scotland |title=Scottish Radio Statistics |publisher=Allmediascotland.com |access-date=12 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109043017/http://www.allmediascotland.com/articles/1261/10052007/bbc_celebrating_radio_high_in_scotland |archive-date=9 January 2009}}</ref> In 2004, STV Group plc (then known as SMG plc) sold its 27.8% stake in [[Scottish Radio Holdings]] to the broadcasting group [[EMAP]] for £90.5&nbsp;million. Other stations broadcasting from Glasgow include [[Smooth Scotland]], [[Heart Scotland]], which are owned by [[Global Media & Entertainment|Global]]. Global Radio's Central Scotland radio station [[Capital Scotland]] also broadcasts from studios in Glasgow. [[Nation Radio Scotland]], owned by [[Nation Broadcasting]], also broadcasts from the city. The city has a strong [[community radio]] sector, including [[Celtic Music Radio]], [[Subcity Radio]], Radio Magnetic, [[Sunny Govan Radio]], AWAZ FM and Insight Radio.

Another architect who has had an enduring impact on the city's appearance is [[Alexander Thomson]], with notable examples including the [[Holmwood House]] villa, and likewise Sir [[John James Burnet]], awarded the R.I.B.A.'s Royal Gold Medal for his lifetime's service to architecture. The buildings reflect the wealth and self-confidence of the residents of the "Second City of the Empire". Glasgow generated immense wealth from trade and the industries that developed from the Industrial Revolution. The [[shipyard]]s, [[Naval architecture|marine engineering]], steel making, and [[heavy industry]] all contributed to the growth of the city.

 

 

Modern buildings in Glasgow include the [[Glasgow Royal Concert Hall]], and along the banks of the Clyde are the [[Glasgow Science Centre]], [[OVO Hydro|The OVO Hydro]] and the [[Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre]], whose [[Clyde Auditorium]] was designed by [[Norman Foster (architect)|Sir Norman Foster]], and is colloquially known as the "[[Armadillo]]". In 2006 [[Zaha Hadid]] won a competition to design the new [[Glasgow Museum of Transport|Museum of Transport]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/museum_of_transport_glasgow.htm |title=Museum of Transport Glasgow |access-date=8 August 2011 |website=Glasgow Architecture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222033628/http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/museum_of_transport_glasgow.htm |archive-date=22 December 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Hadid's museum opened on the waterfront in 2011 and has been renamed the [[Riverside Museum]] to reflect the change in location and to celebrate Glasgow's rich industrial heritage stemming from the Clyde.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/riverside-museum/ |title=Riverside Museum: Scotland's museum of transport and travel |access-date=8 August 2011}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

[[File:NS5864 - Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow.jpg|thumb|right|[[Buchanan Wharf]]]]

 

 

Once dominant export orientated manufacturing industries such as shipbuilding and other heavy engineering have been gradually replaced in importance by more diversified forms of economic activity, although major manufacturing firms continue to be headquartered in the city, such as [[Aggreko]], [[Weir Group]], [[Jim McColl|Clyde Blowers]], [[James Howden|Howden]], [[Linn Products]], [[Firebrand Games]], [[William Grant & Sons]], [[Whyte and Mackay]], [[The Edrington Group]], [[British Polar Engines]] and [[Albion Motors]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scotland.org/about/glasgow-and-surrounding-areas/index.html |title=Glasgow and Surrounding Areas |publisher=Scotland Online Gateway |access-date=9 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720043257/http://www.scotland.org/about/glasgow-and-surrounding-areas/index.html |archive-date=20 July 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Airports===

[[File:GlasgowAirportFromAir.jpg|thumb|right|[[Glasgow Airport]] is the largest of the two airports that serve Glasgow]]

 

 

==Housing==

==Healthcare==

[[File:QEUH.jpg|thumb|right|[[Queen Elizabeth University Hospital]] is the largest hospital campus in Europe.]]

 

 

The [[Queen Elizabeth University Hospital]] (QEUH) Campus is a 1,677-bed acute hospital located in [[Govan]] in the south-west of Glasgow. The hospital is built on the site of the former [[Southern General Hospital]] and opened at the end of April 2015. The hospital comprises a newly built 1,109-bed adult hospital, a 256-bed children's hospital and two major A&E departments, one for adults and one for children in addition to buildings retained from the former hospital. The QEUH is the Regional Major Trauma Centre for the west of Scotland<ref name="Healthcare Improvement Scotland">{{cite web |url=http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/our_work/inspecting_and_regulating_care/opah_greater_glasgow_and_clyde/qeuh_dec_15.aspx |title=HIS : Queen Elizabeth University Hospital |website=healthcareimprovementscotland.org |access-date=22 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304141621/http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/our_work/inspecting_and_regulating_care/opah_greater_glasgow_and_clyde/qeuh_dec_15.aspx |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and is also the largest hospital campus in Europe.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/13078939.Scotshield_wins_hospital_fire_system_contract/ |title=Scotshield wins hospital fire system contract |first=Ian |last=McConnell |work=The Herald |date=30 October 2012 |access-date=19 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716203303/http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/13078939.Scotshield_wins_hospital_fire_system_contract/ |archive-date=16 July 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

 

===Rugby union===

 

In the Scottish League, [[Glasgow Hawks RFC]] was formed in 1997 by the merger of two of Glasgow's oldest clubs: [[Glasgow Academicals RFC|Glasgow Academicals]] and [[Glasgow High Kelvinside]] (GHK). Despite the merger, the second division teams of Glasgow Academicals and Glasgow High Kelvinside re-entered the Scottish rugby league in 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/cup-put-feather-cap-glasgow-hawks-1539577|title=Cup that put feather in the cap of Glasgow Hawks|date=16 April 2014|newspaper=The Scotsman|access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref>

Glasgow [[Glasgow bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics|bid]] to host the [[2018 Summer Youth Olympics]] but lost to [[Buenos Aires]] in the 4 July 2013 vote.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympic.org/news/buenos-aires-elected-as-host-city-for-2018-youth-olympic-games/202222 |title=Buenos Aires elected as Host City for 2018 Youth Olympic Games |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=5 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711112820/http://www.olympic.org/news/buenos-aires-elected-as-host-city-for-2018-youth-olympic-games/202222 |archive-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Glasgow was the host of the [[2018 European Sports Championships]] along with [[Berlin]] (hosts of the [[2018 European Athletics Championships]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1068247/european-championships-opened-by-party-in-glasgow-as-federations-unveil-winners-trophy |title=European Championships opened by party in Glasgow as federations unveil winner's trophy|publisher=Inside the Games|date=1 August 2018|access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> In August 2023, the city hosted the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships. Glasgow played host to five venues for the event, whilst some events were held in [[Dumfries & Galloway]] (para-cycling road) and [[Stirling]] (time trial).<ref>{{cite web |title=Get Ready Glasgow |url=https://www.getreadyglasgow.com/cycling-worlds# |website=Get Ready Glasgow |access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref>

 

 

 

Glasgow was the Scottish host city for the pan–European [[UEFA Euro 2020]] tournament, with the group of 16 matches being played at the city's [[Hampden Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Latest COVID information UEFA EURO 2020 Glasgow |date=29 January 2019 |url=https://www.hampdenpark.co.uk/see-and-do/euro-2020.html |publisher=Hampden Park |access-date=5 December 2023}}</ref> In 2023, Scotland, along with [[England]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[Republic of Ireland]] and [[Wales]], were confirmed hosts for the [[UEFA Euro 2028]] tournament, again with Hampden Stadium being the selected Scottish stadium to host matches.<ref>{{cite web |title=Euro 2028: Hampden to get 'realistic' upgrade as update given on stadium and lowest ticket prices |url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/euro-2028-hampden-to-get-realistic-upgrade-as-update-given-on-stadium-and-lowest-ticket-prices-4367244 |publisher=The Scotsman |access-date=5 December 2023}}</ref>

==Notable people==

{{see also|List of people from Glasgow}}

 

==Notes==