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Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1: The Origins of the Dear Green Place -- The Physical Environment -- Early Settlement and Settlers -- The Ecclesiastical Town -- 2: The Mercantile Town -- Glasgow Merchants -- Religion and Politics -- Land Ownership in the Mediaeval Town -- The Physical Expansion of the Lower Town -- The Building Stones of Glasgow -- 3: The Advent of Industrial Urbanism -- Urban Economy in the Eighteenth Century -- The Tobacco Lords -- Diversification and the Circulation of Capital -- Cotton Manufacture -- Coal and Iron -- The Regulation of the Clyde -- Engineering -- Shipbuilding -- Locomotive Building -- The Spatial Expression of Industrial Urbanism -- 4: Urban Expansion in the Nineteenth Century -- Socio-Spatial Segregation -- The Development of the West End -- The Other Side of the Coin -- The Glasgow Tenement -- The Tenement Builders -- The Impact of the Railways on the Victorian City -- The Spatial Impress of the Railways -- 5: Population and Society in the Nineteenth Century -- Demographic Transition -- The Social Impact of Rapid Growth -- The Civic Response -- 6: The Urban Economy -- Shipbuilding -- Steel-Making -- Life After Death? -- The Spatial Distribution of New Industry -- Regional Plans -- Economic Restructuring -- Unemployment -- Quo Vadis? -- Towards the Post-Industrial City? -- 7: Housing the People -- The Inter-War Years -- Post-War Developments -- A Change of Philosophy -- New Approaches -- 8: The Government of the City -- Municipal Services -- Growth by Annexation -- Parliamentary Politics in Glasgow -- Electoral Politics within the City -- Central-Local Government Relations -- The Post-1975 Structure of Local Government -- The Future Government of Glasgow -- 9: The Urban Challenge.

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