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08 Nov 2008

The Clyde Gateway: a new urban frontier

By

Neil Gray
Neil Gray discusses the proposed gentrification of the Clyde Gateway area which, with its tracts of derelict land and deeply impoverished population, lends itself to a ‘discourse of decline’. However, the state-sponsored regeneration proposal that builds on this discourse amounts to little more than a form of welfare for the rich.