Looks like things are looking up for my home city – Glasgow. Glasgow means “Dear Green Place” and used to have a thriving ship building industry and indeed was the greenest city in Europe – it had more public parks than anywhere else. Glasgow also had the largest housing estate in Europe: Easterhouse.
Glasgow was once the Second City of the Empire, but those days are long gone. However thanks to the regeneration started by the Glasgow Garden Festival, things are getting better in a city once infamous for its “No Mean City” image – Glasgow was once the murder capital of Europe. And Glasgow, like much of Scotland, has some health issues which are hopefully going to be tackled over the next 20 years.
From the BBC Busines News:
Glasgow has won a £24m UK government grant intended to make it one of the UK's first smart cities. It will use the money on projects to demonstrate how a city of the future might work.
They will include better services for Glaswegians, with real-time information about traffic and apps to check that buses and trains are on time. The council will also create an app for reporting issues such as potholes and missing bin collections.
Other services promised by the council include linking up the CCTV cameras across the city with its traffic management unit in order to identify traffic incidents faster.
It will use analytical software and security cameras to help identify and prevent crime in the city and monitor energy levels to find new ways of providing gas and electricity to poorer areas where fuel poverty is a big issue.
This has come at a good time for Glasgow with the city hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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