32 — Sunday, April 11, 1999 - North Shore News

Glasgow

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Andrew McCredie

Editor
andrew@nsnews.com

INDUSTRIAL cities
are accustomed to play-
ing second fiddle to
their more cultured
urban counterparts.

Hamilton has Toronto.
Manchester has © London.
Glasgow has Edinburgh. Make
that had.

Long associated with heavy
industry such as shipbuilding
and textiles, Glasgow is cmerg-
ing . from it’s Industrial
Revolution roots as a cultural
centre. Edinburgh, the coun-
try’s capital and longtime
tourist showpicce, still has the
elegant Princess Street, the his-
toric Edinburgh Castle and the

nstructs a
image

stunning, ancient backdrop of

Arthur's Seat. Bue Glasgow,
home to both the Scottish
Opera and Scottish Bailet, has
quictly become a sophisticated
city.

Nine years ago, Scotland's
largest city was the European
City of Culture; this year
Glasgow is the 1999 U.K. City
of Architecture and Design.

Despite gloomy decades in
the early part of the 20th cen-
tury, Glasgow is actually no
stranger to cither innovative
design or inspired architecture.

Commercial prosperity in
the 19th century gave rise to a
new generation of wealthy

men interested in all manner of

cultural enterprise. The most
famous of these industrialists,

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