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John Moore | 304 pages | 16 Oct 2015 | Birlinn General | 9781780273198 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Glasgow Mapping The City - UK Map

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The maps featured provide fascinating insights into topics such as: Glasgow: Mapping the City development of the Clyde and its shipbuilding industry; the villages which were gradually subsumed into the city; how the city was policed; what lies underneath the city streets; the growth of Glasgow during the Industrial Revolution; the development of transport; the city's green spaces; the health of Glasgow; the city as a tourist destination; the city as a wartime target ; and its regeneration in the s as a host city of one of the UK's five National Garden Festivals. Together the maps present a fascinating insight into how Glasgow has changed and developed over a period of almost years. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Glasgowplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Glasgow: Mapping the City. Nov 26, Raj rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction. Doing exactly what it says on the tin, this book has a carefully curated range of maps of Glasgow, selected to show interesting developments in the city, from the tapping of the Molendinar Burn, through the heyday of shipping on the Clyde to the Glasgow Garden Festival. The range of maps shows changes in the physical shape of the city, as it grows and expands, especially to the south and west; and changes to the social make up of the city too, charting policemen's beats, the spread of disease an Doing exactly what it says on the tin, this book has a carefully curated range of maps of Glasgow, selected to show interesting developments in the city, from the tapping of the Molendinar Burn, through the heyday of shipping on the Clyde to the Glasgow Garden Festival. The range of maps shows changes in the physical shape of the city, as it grows and expands, especially to the south and west; and changes to the social make up of the city too, charting policemen's beats, the spread of disease and the locations of post offices. The range of maps is immense, covering the city's history from myriad angles. The text that goes along with the maps is Glasgow: Mapping the City and well-researched. Moore usually provides some information on the Glasgow: Mapping the City makers as well as details of what is being shown and, where he can, providing wider social context. This is an absolutely gorgeous book albeit one that's too big to comfortably hold easily with Glasgow: Mapping the City reproductions of the maps on good quality, glossy paper. Generally each map is accorded four pages: a full-page close up of some detail on the map, and then the text over the next three pages, with the full-size map and often other close ups as well. More than once, I wished that I had a Glasgow: Mapping the City glass so that Glasgow: Mapping the City could zoom into the detail. It seems that mapping of Glasgow started comparatively late. Despite a blurry manuscript dating fromand several naval charts of the Clyde, the first plan map of the city in the book is dated as late as The bulk of the book is taken up with maps from the 19th century, as the city of Glasgow exploded in size during the industrial revolution, with comparatively few in the 20th, although the ones that were there were fascinating, especially the post WW1 plan for "homes for heroes", the German map that could have been used in a land invasion of Britain and the radical post-war plan that would have completely reshaped the city, if it had ever been implemented. For anyone interested in Glasgow's history Glasgow: Mapping the City development, this is a fascinating book to browse through. I've come to love Glasgow over the years that I've lived here, and this book is a wonderful way to experience its history in a very visual way. Nov 17, Callum Soukup-Croy rated it really liked it Shelves: historygeographyscottish. This book will of course have a limited appeal, aimed mainly at those with an interest in the local , but it does what it does very well. The book is a history of the maps that have been made of Glasgow from its earliest days to the present and the stories of those who made them and why. Reading it you sometimes wish that the text gave a little more information on the 'why' rather than the 'who' but if you accept the fact that this is a history of Glasgow mapping you can overlo This book will of course have a limited appeal, aimed mainly at those with an interest in the local history of Glasgow, but it does what Glasgow: Mapping the City does very well. Reading it you sometimes wish that the text gave a little more information on the 'why' rather than the 'who' but if you accept the fact that this is a history of Glasgow mapping you can overlook such a small foible. Where this book really succeeds is in the wealth of illustrations. These are, simply put, fantastic. Large in scale, fully coloured and crammed with detail the only thing that slows you down from reading this book in a matter of hours is the time you end up poring over the maps. Picking out the details Glasgow: Mapping the City old streets and buildings is hugely interesting and will have you constantly consulting Google Maps to see what features still remain. If you have an interest in the local history of Glasgow then you will not regret buying this book and I have no doubt you will be picking it up again and again. 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It is the third most populous city in the United Kingdomas of the estimated city population ofHistorically part of Lanarkshirethe city now forms the area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland ; the local authority is Glasgow City Council. It is the fifth most visited city in the UK. Inhabitants of the city are referred Glasgow: Mapping the City as "Glaswegians" or, in the pejorative, as "Weegies". Glasgow is also known for the Glasgow pattera distinct dialect of the Scots language that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city. Glasgow grew from a small Glasgow: Mapping the City settlement on Glasgow: Mapping the City to become the largest seaport in Scotland, and tenth largest by tonnage in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric and royal burghand the later establishment of the University of Glasgow: Mapping the City in the fifteenth century, it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. From the eighteenth century onwards, the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies. With the onset of the Industrial Revolutionthe 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 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 and Edwardian periodhaving taken the mantle from pre- independence DublinGlasgow: Mapping the City was largely recognised the second city during the Georgian era. Although many other cities argue the title was theirs, not Glasgow's. In the late 19th and early Glasgow: Mapping the City centuries, Glasgow's population grew rapidly, reaching a peak of 1, people in This process reduced the population Glasgow: Mapping the City the City of Glasgow council area to an estimated , withpeople living in the defined contiguous urban area as of Glasgow Glasgow: Mapping the City the Commonwealth Games and the first European Championships in ; and is also well known in the sporting world for football particularly the rivalry between Celtic and Rangersrugby, athletics, tennis, golf and swimming. Today, Glasgow has a diverse architectural scene, one of the key factors leading visitors to the city. From the city centre sprawling with grand Victorian buildings, to the many glass and metal edifices in the International Financial Services District to the serpentine terraces of blonde and red sandstone in the fashionable west end and the imposing mansions which make up Pollokshieldson the south side. Welsh glas-cau[18] giving a meaning of "green-hollow". It Glasgow: Mapping the City sometimes mistakenly [ citation needed ] claimed that the name means "dear green place" when translated from Gaelic. The settlement probably had an earlier Cumbric name, Cathures ; the modern name appears for the first time in the Gaelic periodas Glasgu. It is also recorded that the King of StrathclydeRhydderch Haelwelcomed Saint Kentigern also known as Saint Mungoand procured his consecration as bishop about For some thirteen years Kentigern laboured in the region, building his church at the Molendinar Burn where Glasgow Cathedral now stands, and making many converts. A large community developed around him and became known as Glasgu. The area around Glasgow has hosted communities for millennia, with the River Clyde providing a natural location for fishing. The Romans later built outposts in the area and, to keep Roman Britannia separate from the Celtic and Pictish Caledoniaconstructed the Antonine Wall. Items from the wall, such as altars from Roman forts like Balmuildycan be found at the Hunterian Museum today. Glasgow itself was reputed to have been founded by the Christian Glasgow: Mapping the City Saint Mungo in the 6th century. He established a church on the Molendinar Burnwhere the present Glasgow Cathedral stands, and in the following years Glasgow became a religious centre. Glasgow grew over the following centuries. The reportedly began in the year The founding of the University of Glasgow Glasgow: Mapping the City and Glasgow: Mapping the City of the bishopric to become the Archdiocese of Glasgow in increased the town's religious and educational status and landed wealth. Its early trade was in agriculture, brewing and fishing, with cured salmon and herring being exported to Europe and the Mediterranean. Following the European Protestant Reformation and with the encouragement of the Convention of Glasgow: Mapping the City Burghsthe 14 incorporated trade crafts federated as the Trades House in to match the power and influence in the town council of the earlier Merchants' Guilds who established their Merchants House in the same year. Glasgow's substantial fortunes came from international trade, manufacturing and invention, starting in the 17th century with sugar, followed by tobacco, and then cotton and linen, products of the Atlantic triangular slave trade. Daniel Defoe visited the city in the early 18th century and famously opined in his book A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britainthat Glasgow was "the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted". At that time the city's population was about 12, and the city Glasgow: Mapping the City yet to undergo the massive expansionary changes to its economy and urban fabric, brought about by the Scottish Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. After the Acts of Union inScotland gained further access to the vast markets of the new British Empire, and Glasgow became prominent Glasgow: Mapping the City a hub of international trade to and from the Americas, especially in sugar, tobacco, cotton, and manufactured goods. The city's Tobacco Lords created a deep water port at Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clydeas the river within the city itself was then too shallow. The opening of the Monkland Canal and basin linking to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas infacilitated access to the extensive iron-ore and coal mines in Lanarkshire. After extensive river engineering projects to dredge and deepen the River Clyde as far as Glasgow, shipbuilding became a major industry on the upper stretches of the river, pioneered by industrialists such as Robert NapierJohn ElderGeorge ThomsonSir William Pearce and Sir Alfred Yarrow. Lowrywilling to depict the new industrial era Glasgow: Mapping the City the modern world. Glasgow's population had Glasgow: Mapping the City that of Edinburgh by The development of civic institutions included the inone of the first municipal police forces in the world. Despite the crisis caused by the City of Glasgow Bank 's collapse ingrowth continued and by the end of the 19th century it was one of the cities known as the "Second City of the Empire" and Glasgow: Mapping the City producing more than half Britain's tonnage of shipping [26] and a quarter of all locomotives in the world. Shipping, banking, insurance and professional services expanded at the same time. Glasgow became one of the first cities in Europe to reach a population of one million. The city's new trades and sciences attracted new residents from across the Lowlands and the Highlands of Scotlandfrom Ireland and other parts of Britain and from Continental Europe. During this period, the construction of many of the city's greatest architectural masterpieces and most ambitious civil engineering projects, such as the Milngavie water treatment worksGlasgow SubwayGlasgow Corporation TramwaysCity ChambersMitchell Library and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum were being funded by its wealth. The city also held a series of International Exhibitions at Kelvingrove ParkinGlasgow: Mapping the Citywith Britain's last major International Exhibition, the Glasgow: Mapping the City Exhibitionbeing subsequently held in at Bellahouston Parkwhich drew 13 million visitors. The 20th century witnessed both decline and renewal in the city. After World Glasgow: Mapping the City Ithe city suffered from the impact of the Post— World War I recession and from the later Great Depressionthis also led to a rise of radical socialism and the " Red Clydeside " movement. The city had recovered by the outbreak Glasgow: Mapping the City World War II. The city saw aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe [29] during the Clydebank Blitzduring the war, then grew through the post-war boom that lasted through the s. By the s, growth of industry in countries like Japan and West Germanyweakened the once pre-eminent position of many of the city's industries. As a result Glasgow: Mapping the City 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 Glasgow: Mapping the City of the city, when the Glasgow Corporation published its controversial Bruce Reportwhich 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 mids and lasted into the late s. This involved the mass demolition of the city's infamous slums and their replacement with large suburban housing estates and tower blocks. 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 of Cumbernauld, Glenrothes, Irvine, Livingston and East Kilbridedispersed across the Scottish Glasgow: Mapping the City to halve the city's population base. By the late s, there Glasgow: Mapping the City been a significant resurgence in Glasgow's economic fortunes. The " Glasgow's miles better " campaign, launched inand opening of the Burrell Collection in and Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in facilitated Glasgow's new role as a European centre for business services and finance and promoted an increase in tourism and inward investment. Despite Glasgow's economic renaissance, the East End of the city remains the focus of social deprivation. In the city was ranked at Glasgow: Mapping the City for Personal Safety in the Mercer index of top 50 safest cities in the world. With the population growing, the first scheme to provide a public water supply was by the Glasgow Company in A second company was formed inand the two merged inbut there was some dissatisfaction with the quality of the water supplied. The engineer for the project was John Frederick Bateman while James Morris Gale became the resident engineer for the city section of the project, and subsequently became Engineer in Chief for Glasgow Water Commissioners. He oversaw several improvements during his tenure, including a second aqueduct and further raising of water levels in Loch Katrine. A similar scheme to create a reservoir in Glen Finglas was authorised inbut was deferred, and was not completed until Good health requires both clean water and effective removal of sewage. The Caledonian Railway rebuilt many of the sewers, as part of a deal to allow them to tunnel under the city, and sewage treatment works were opened at Dalmarnoch inDalmuir in and Shieldhall in It will reduce the risk of flooding and the likelihood that sewage will overflow into the Clyde during storms. The coat of arms of the City of Glasgow was granted to the royal burgh by the Lord Lyon on 25 October The emblems represent miracles supposed to have been performed by Mungo [52] and are listed in the traditional rhyme:. St Mungo is also said to have preached a sermon containing the words Lord, Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word and the praising of thy name. This was abbreviated to "Let Glasgow Flourish" and adopted as the city's motto. InJohn Stewart, the first Lord Provost of Glasgow, left an endowment so that a "St Mungo's Bell" could be made and tolled throughout the city so that the citizens would pray for his soul. A new bell was purchased by the magistrates in and that bell is still on display in the People's Palace Museum, near . The supporters are two salmon bearing rings, and the crest is a half length figure of Saint Mungo. He wears a bishop's mitre and liturgical Glasgow: Mapping the City and has his hand raised in "the act of benediction ". The original grant placed the crest atop a helm, but this was removed in subsequent grants. The current version has a gold mural crown between the shield and the crest. This form of coronet, resembling an embattled city wall, was allowed to the four area councils with city status. The arms were re-matriculated by the City of Glasgow District Council on 6 Februaryand by the present area council on 25 March The only change made on each occasion was in the type of coronet over the arms. Although Glasgow Corporation had been a pioneer in the municipal socialist movement from the late-nineteenth century, since the Representation of the People ActGlasgow increasingly supported left-wing ideas and politics at a national Glasgow: Mapping the City. The city council was controlled by the Labour Party for over thirty years, since the Glasgow: Mapping the City of the Progressives. Sincewhen local government elections in Scotland began to use the single transferable vote rather than the first-past-the-post systemthe dominance of the Labour Party within the city started to decline. As a result of the United Kingdom local electionsthe SNP was able to form a minority administration Glasgow: Mapping the City Labour's thirty- seven years of uninterrupted control. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of and the German Revolution of —19the city's Glasgow: Mapping the City strikes and militant organisations caused serious alarm at Westminsterwith one uprising in January Glasgow: Mapping the City the Liberal Prime MinisterDavid Lloyd Georgeto deploy 10, soldiers and tanks on the city's Glasgow: Mapping the City. A huge demonstration in the city's on 31 January ended in violence after the Riot Act was read. Industrial action at the shipyards gave rise to the " Red Clydeside " epithet. During the s, 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 ; 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 Partyanother left-wing political party in Scotland. 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 indespite having been the controlling party as the Progressives from to when Sir Donald Liddle was the last non-Labour Lord Provost. At Westminster, it is represented by seven members of parliament MPsall elected at least once every five years to represent individual constituencies, using the first-past-the-post system of voting. In Holyrood, Glasgow is represented by sixteen MSPs, of whom nine are elected to represent individual constituencies once every four years using first-past-the-post, and seven are elected as additional regional members, by proportional representation. In the European Parliament, the city forms part of the Scotland constituency, which elects six Members of the European Parliament. Since Glasgow is covered and operates under two separate central governments, the devolved Scottish Parliament and UK Government, they Glasgow: Mapping the City various matters that Glasgow City Council is not responsible for. The Glasgow electoral Glasgow: Mapping the City of the Scottish Parliament covers the Glasgow City council area, the area of the South Lanarkshire and a small eastern portion of Renfrewshire. Glasgow: Mapping the City - Enlighten: Publications

The Clyde is arguably the most evocative of Scottish rivers. Scotland has Glasgow: Mapping the City a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century, 20th-century defences and the two world wars, as well as the Cold War, all This is the first book to take maps seriously as a Glasgow: Mapping the City of history, from the earliest Not only was it the first industrial city, it can claim to be the first post-industrial city. This book uses historic maps and unpublished and original plans to chart the dramatic growth and Maps were produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly Glasgow: Mapping the City of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations Glasgow: Mapping the City quantity. Glasgow: Mapping the City to basket. ISBN: Imprint: Birlinn. Categories: Mapping. About the Book Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 80 maps which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about different Glasgow: Mapping the City, commercial and social aspects of Scotland's largest city. The maps featured provide fascinating insights into topics such as: the development of the Clyde and its shipbuilding industry, the villages which were gradually subsumed into the city, how the city was policed, what lies underneath the city streets, the growth of Glasgow during the Industrial Revolution, the development of transport, the city's green spaces, the health of Glasgow, Glasgow as a tourist destination, the city as a wartime target, and its regeneration in the s as the host city of one of the UK's five National Garden Festivals. Together, they present a fascinating insight into how Glasgow has changed and developed over the last years, and will appeal to all those with an interest in Glasgow and Scottish history, as well as those interested in urban history, architectural history, town planning and the history of maps. The Author John Moore John Moore is a specialist on Scottish cartography and has published widely on the subject over a Glasgow: Mapping the City of many years. He is currently Collections Manager at Glasgow University. He is the author of Glasgow: Mapping the City Birlinn, View Profile. You may also like…. The Clyde: Mapping the River. Hardback Pub: 05 Oct Scotland: Defending the Nation. Hardback Pub: 11 Oct Scotland: Mapping the Nation. Hardback Pub: 26 Oct Scotland: Mapping the Islands. Hardback Pub: 20 Oct Manchester: Mapping the City. Hardback Pub: 04 Oct Oxford: Mapping the City. Hardback Pub: 31 Oct Edinburgh: Mapping the City. Hardback Pub: 14 Oct