Catriona Stewart: Could the council finally be getting it right on George Square?

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Catriona Stewart: Could the council finally be getting it right on George Square?
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After multiple false starts, it finally feels like Glasgow is being offered a George Square it can be proud of ✍️ LadyCatHT

John McAslan + Partners released a set of artists' impressions of what the centre of Glasgow could look like after a major redesign of our important civic heart.

Previous attempts to revamp the square have met with disaster. First, the atrocious 1990s redesign that ripped up the trees and laid down red asphalt. We think about Glasgow as being a grey, rainy city much of the year but, as record heat this week shows, the UK is becoming hotter and we need to think forward about dealing with future temperatures as the planet heats up.

and heritage of the cities statues while acknowledging that they mean different things - or mean nothing - to different people.Once more detail emerges about what the plans to relocate the statues to other parts of the square or other parts of the city mean in practice, that will need some careful thought and careful public conversation.

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