“You almost want to shake their hands in admiration. The total amount of city bonuses for the last year, it turns out, is £12.6bn. Which is more, apparently, than the nation’s entire budget for transport…”

Published in Soundings and exclusively available online at ukwatch.net, Gerry Hassan discusses the contemporary city, both in fact and discourse, and argues that we need a different model of a city than what is currently on offer. Some elements of an alternative that renews an idealistic, optimistic and forwardlooking idea of humanity and the future, can be found in the innovative Glasgow 2020 project.