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Cities of Culture: what use is the accolade 'European City of Culture'? Not much, when that city continues to neglect its historic buildings, as Glasgow so shamefully has. Will Liverpool do better?
Apollo, Oct, 2004 by Gavin Stamp
Glasgow had a second chance to be officially cultural in 1999 when it became the Arts Council's City of Architecture and Design. A group of 'Homes for the Future' were built and the old Glasgow Herald building, by Mackintosh, was converted into 'The Lighthouse', a centre for architecture and design.
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But, again, this just seems another public relations exercise when civic attitudes have not really changed. Recently, the Scottish Civic Trust reported that Glasgow has the worst record of any city in Scotland for protecting historic buildings. 120 sites in Glasgow are now on its buildings-at-risk register, and twenty-three listed buildings in the city have been demolished since 1990--in the same period Edinburgh has lost only three. To be 'European City of Culture' might seem a worthless accolade when a city couldn't really care about its buildings. Let us hope Liverpool can do better.
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