Strategic Planning in Action: The Impact of the Clyde Valley Regional Plan 1946-1982

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The policy discourses that shaped the ‘transformation’ of Glasgow in the later 20th century: ‘overspill’, ‘redeployment’ and the ‘culture of enterprise’

“…On this basis, it is highly likely that inequality in the city would be less extreme than has proven to be the case, for the actual pattern of economic development which was to transpire exacerbated inequality (Glasgow Economic Leadership, 2016). Indeed, such policies would highly probably have been better for the longer-term development of the Scottish economy as a whole, given the aforementioned and widely discussed problems which were to transpire with the durability of the 'branch plant economy' (Firn, 1986;Foster, 2003). Similarly, alternative policies for housing development were espoused -challenging both overspill and also the grand schemes for clearance and redevelopment within the city (e.g.…”

“…This was particularly true in light of at least two considerations. First, monetary policy was affecting, not just the older industries, but also some of the inward investment 'success stories' of the preceding years (Devine, 1999;Firn, 1986) (NRS SEP4/3487, minutes of Economic Policy Group, 1981-82). Second, the new government was also, like the Conservative Government of 1951-55, publicly hostile to regional policy in a way that might prove problematic for the future of the Scottish Office's regional economic planning paradigm (Parsons, 1988).…”