Highbrow Magazine - the U.K. austerity https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/uk-austerity en Glasgow’s War Against the Anguish of Urban Life https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10214-glasgow-s-war-against-anguish-urban-life <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/travel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Travel</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Sun, 10/27/2019 - 05:33</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1glasgow.jpg?itok=wQTM4VOq"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1glasgow.jpg?itok=wQTM4VOq" width="480" height="360" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article originally published in </strong><a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/urban-living-city-mental-health-glasgow-cities-happiness-regeneration/"><strong>Mosaic</strong></a><strong> under a </strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><strong>Creative Commons license</strong></a><strong>. Read the rest of the article </strong><a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/urban-living-city-mental-health-glasgow-cities-happiness-regeneration/"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Glasgow has become notorious for the kind of mental and physical ills that plague city dwellers everywhere. Is urban life itself harmful to humans – or can we rethink cities so that they can help us to thrive?</p> <p> </p> <p>If you live in Glasgow, you are more likely to die young. Men there die a full seven years earlier than their counterparts in other UK cities. Until recently, the causes of this excess mortality remained a mystery.</p> <p> </p> <p>“Deep-fried Mars bars,” some have speculated. “The weather,” others suggested. For years, those reasons were as good as any. In 2012, the <em>Economist</em> described it thus: “It is as if a malign vapour rises from the Clyde at night and settles in the lungs of sleeping Glaswegians.”</p> <p> </p> <p>The phenomenon has become known as the Glasgow Effect. But David Walsh, a public health program manager at the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, who led a study on the excess deaths in 2010, wasn’t satisfied with how the term was being used. “It turned into a Scooby-Doo mystery, but it’s not an exciting thing. It’s about people dying young; it’s about grief.”</p> <p> </p> <p>He wanted to work out why Glaswegians have a 30 percent higher risk of dying prematurely – that is, before the age of 65 – than those living in similar post-industrial British cities. In 2016, his team published a report looking at 40 hypotheses – from vitamin D deficiency to obesity and sectarianism. “The most important reason is high levels of poverty, full stop,” says Walsh. “There’s one in three children who are classed as living in poverty at the moment.”</p> <p> </p> <p>But even with deprivation accounted for, mortality rates in Glasgow remained inexplicable. Deaths in each income group are about 15 percent higher than in Manchester or Liverpool. In particular, deaths from “diseases of despair” – drug overdoses, suicides and alcohol-related deaths – are high. In the mid-2000s, after adjusting for sex, age and deprivation, there was almost a 70 percent higher mortality rate for suicide in Glasgow than in the two English cities.</p> <p> </p> <p>Walsh’s report revealed that radical urban planning decisions from the 1950s onwards had made the physical and mental health of Glasgow’s population more vulnerable to the consequences of de-industrialisation and poverty.</p> <p> </p> <p>Shifting theories of city planning have profoundly altered people’s lives everywhere, and particularly over the past half-century in Glasgow. The city’s population stands at about 600,000 now. In 1951, it was nearly double this. Glasgow’s excess mortality, the report suggests, is the unintended legacy of urban planning that exacerbated the already considerable challenges of living in a city.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2glasgow.jpg" style="height:450px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Studies have consistently linked city living with poorer mental health. For example, growing up in an urban environment is correlated with twice the risk of developing schizophrenia as growing up in the countryside. By 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to UN figures. The consequences for global health are likely to be significant.</p> <p> </p> <p>Can we learn from what happened in Glasgow? As an increasing number of people move to or are born in cities, questions of fragmented communities, transient populations, overcrowding, inequality and segregation – and how these affect the wellbeing of residents – will become more acute.</p> <p> </p> <p>Are urban dwellers doomed to poor mental health, or can planners learn from the mistakes of the past and design cities that will keep us healthy and happy?</p> <p> </p> <p>In postwar Glasgow, local authorities decided to tackle the city’s severe overcrowding. The 1945 Bruce report proposed housing people in high-rises on the periphery of the city center. The Clyde Valley report published a year later suggested encouraging workers and their families to move to new towns. In the end, the council did a combination of both.</p> <p> </p> <p>New towns like East Kilbride and Cumbernauld are now among the most populous towns in Scotland. Many of those who stayed in Glasgow were relocated to large housing estates like Drumchapel, Easterhouse and Castlemilk.</p> <p> </p> <p>The rapid change in the city’s makeup was soon recognized as disastrous. Relocating workers and their families to new towns was described in mid-1960s parliamentary discussions as “skimming the cream”. In an internal review in 1971, the Scottish Office noted that the manner of population reduction was “destined within a decade or so to produce a seriously unbalanced population with a very high proportion [in central Glasgow] of the old, the very poor and the almost unemployable…”</p> <p> </p> <p>Although the government was soon aware of the consequences, these were not necessarily intentional, says Walsh. “You have to understand what sort of shape Glasgow was in, in terms of the really lousy living conditions, the levels of overcrowded housing and all the rest of it,” he says. “They thought the best approach was to just start afresh.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Anna left the tenements for a high-rise in Glasgow’s Sighthill estate, where she has lived on and off since the mid-1960s. She was a teenager when she moved with her mother and sister to a brand-new fourth-floor flat – picked from a bowler hat. It had two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and a glass partition in the hallway. “It was like Buckingham Palace,” remembers Anna. She is now 71, dressed in jeans and a denim shirt, with a blonde bob and a raspy cough that doubles as a laugh.</p> <p> </p> <p>Sighthill’s 10 20-storey tower blocks were meant to herald the future. North of the city center, set in parkland, with a view over the city, they would house more than 7,000 people drawn from the tenements and the slums.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3glasgow.jpg" style="height:450px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Until then, Anna’s family had lived in a tenement building in nearby Roystonhill. “I slept with my mammy and my sister in a recess,” she says. The toilet was shared. This was typical; little had changed since the 1911 census revealed that in Glasgow almost two-thirds of dwellings – many housing large families and lodgers – had only one or two rooms, compared to a third of dwellings in London.</p> <p> </p> <p>But when the tenements went, something else went, too. “There were communities which had a social fabric, if you like, which were then broken up by these processes,” says Walsh.</p> <p> </p> <p>Anna recalls the change. “When we were in the tenements, you’d shout up to the window: ‘Mammy, I want a piece of jam!’ Before you knew it, there was a dozen of them being thrown out of the window.” In the tower block, she did not let her own children play unsupervised. Neighbors only spoke if they took the same lift. Her daughter was threatened with a bread knife.</p> <p> </p> <p>By the 2000s, the tower blocks were infamous for deprivation, violence and drugs. Many residents had moved out, including Anna and her family. Empty flats were used to rehouse asylum seekers. Fractures within the community were worsening.</p> <p> </p> <p>Glasgow Housing Association decided to condemn the buildings. The towers were demolished over eight years; the last one came down in 2016. Photographer Chris Leslie, who documented their dismantlement, remembers how the buildings were stripped and the crane picked the concrete shell apart. The interior of the flats was revealed, each a tiny different colored cuboid.</p> <p> </p> <p>But the roots of Glasgow’s excess mortality stretch back further than new towns and high-rises – to the Industrial Revolution, argues Carol Craig, who has written two books on the subject. In Glasgow, then called the Second City of the Empire, factories and the docks needed workers. Overcrowding coupled with a culture of drinking produced an explosive situation.</p> <p> </p> <p>Faced with the prospect of returning to a cramped tenement, many men preferred to visit the pub; there were few other public meeting places. “You’re more likely to have violence, you’re more likely to have conflict, even sexual abuse is much higher in households where there are drinkers,” Craig says.</p> <p> </p> <p>Being exposed in childhood to stressful events like domestic violence, parental abandonment, abuse, or drug and alcohol addictions is thought to be linked to poor mental and physical wellbeing in later life. The higher a person’s number of Adverse Childhood Experiences, as they are called, the more likely they are to suffer from mental illness or addiction. In turn they are more likely to expose their children to similar types of experiences, she says. “ACEs tend to cascade through the generations.”</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4glasgow_0.jpg" style="height:400px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>In the early 20th century, cities were meant to show us how to live. Modern urban planning would make people in the world’s cities healthier and happier. In 1933, the influential Swiss-French architect and urban planner Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, published his blueprint for the ideal city. In contrast with the past, he said, the city would now be designed to benefit its residents “on both the spiritual and material planes.”</p> <p> </p> <p>In his plans for the Radiant City, industrial, commercial and residential zones would be segregated to allow workers to escape pollution; homes would be surrounded by open green spaces to allow residents to meet; wide roads would be set out in a grid system; and high-rise blocks would help clear the slums, remnants of the rapid industrialization in many cities during the 19th century. These slums were overcrowded and insanitary, and their inhabitants were, as the architect put it, “incapable of initiating ameliorations.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Glasgow was among the first and the most enthusiastic to adopt these new buildings. In 1954, a delegation of councillors and planners visited Marseilles to see the Unité d’Habitation, an 18-storey block of flats and amenities resting on concrete stilts, designed by Le Corbusier and finished two years before. Glasgow soon had the highest number of high-rise dwellings in the U.K. outside London.</p> <p> </p> <p>Since Le Corbusier, we have learned more about how the design of buildings can affect behavior. In an oft-cited study from 1973, the psychologist Andrew Baum looked at how the design of two student dormitories at Stony Brook University in Long Island changed how the 34 residents in each interacted with each other.</p> <p> </p> <p>In the first design, all the students shared common lounge and bathroom facilities along a corridor. In the second, smaller groups of four to six each shared bathrooms and lounges. They found that the first design was a “socially overloaded environment” which did not allow residents to regulate who they interacted with and when. Being faced with too many people, at times not of their choosing, led students to experience stress; they became less helpful and more anti-social than those in the second design as the year went on.</p> <p> </p> <p>Perhaps the most famous case study of buildings’ effects on their inhabitants still referenced today is Pruitt–Igoe in St Louis, 33 11-storey towers inspired by Le Corbusier and designed by the modernist Minoru Yamasaki. Finished in 1956, it was initially seen as a miracle solution to inner-city living. Less than 20 years later, the social problems the blocks seemed to have spawned were deemed so irreparable that the buildings were imploded by the local authorities.</p> <p> </p> <p>The architect Oscar Newman toured the complex in 1971, a year before demolition started. He argued that the design of a building affected the extent to which residents contributed to its upkeep. If people feel responsible for both keeping an area clean and controlling who uses it, it is likely to be safer. He called this sense of ownership over a territory “defensible space.”</p> <p> </p> <p>“The larger the number of people who share a communal space, the more difficult it is for people to identify it as theirs or to feel they have a right to control or determine the activity taking place within it,” Newman wrote. Pruitt–Igoe was not designed to accommodate defensible space. “Landings shared by only two families were well maintained, whereas corridors shared by 20 families... were a disaster – they evoked no feelings of identity or control.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Tower blocks with more wealthy residents are less likely to have issues with defensible space: They can pay for cleaners and security guards. Children, on the other hand, are often most affected: These common areas – communal corridors, or landings, or the nearby park – are usually spaces for play.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5glasgow.jpg" style="height:400px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>During his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University in 1972, the Clydeside trade unionist Jimmy Reid argued powerfully that working-class communities left behind by economic advancement were being stored out of sight. “When you think of some of the high flats around us, it can hardly be an accident that they are as near as one could get to an architectural representation of a filing cabinet.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Inequality is at its most conspicuous in cities: the very poor and the very rich live side by side yet separately. Relative social status is more likely to be the first measure by which we judge people in places where communities are more transient and inequality starker. This has been shown to have an impact on our psychological wellbeing.</p> <p> </p> <p>In their book, <em>The Inner Level</em>, epidemiologists Kate Pickett and Richard G Wilkinson argue that inequality not only creates social rupture by highlighting people’s differences but also encourages competition, contributing to increased social anxiety. They cite a 2004 paper by two psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles – Sally Dickerson and Margaret Kemeny – who analyzed 208 studies to find that tasks involving some threat of social evaluation affected stress hormones the most.</p> <p> </p> <p>Pickett and Wilkinson argue that this type of stress harms our psychological health. “The more unequal countries had three times as much mental illness as the more equal ones.” This affects people of all social classes. In high-inequality countries, such as the USA and the UK, even the richest 10 percent of people suffer more anxiety than any group in low-inequality countries except the poorest 10 percent.</p> <p> </p> <p>Research has also shown that living in a city can alter our brain’s architecture, making it more vulnerable to this type of social stress. In 2011, a team led by psychiatrist Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg of Heidelberg University’s Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, looked at the implications of urban living on brain biology in one of the first experiments of its kind.</p> <p> </p> <p>The scientists scanned the brains of 32 students while they were given arithmetic tasks and simultaneously subjected to criticism on headphones. This was designed to simulate social stress. A further 23 performed the same test but were subjected to a different kind of social evaluation: they could see the frowning faces of invigilators while completing the puzzles. The results of the test were stark: The participants who lived in a city demonstrated a greater neurophysiological reaction to the same stress-inducing situation. The amygdala, an area of the brain that processes emotion, was activated more strongly in current urban-dwellers. The test also showed a difference between those who’d grown up in cities and those brought up in towns or the countryside. The former displayed a stronger response in their perigenual anterior cingulate cortex, which regulates the amygdala and is associated with stress and negative emotion.</p> <p> </p> <p>Meyer-Lindenberg’s previous work on risk mechanisms in schizophrenia focused on genes. But these are only thought to account for a 20 percent increased chance of developing the illness at most – and growing up in a city is associated with double the risk. Meyer-Lindenberg’s research has shown that stressful experiences in early life correlate with reduced volume of grey matter in the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex, a factor often seen in people with schizophrenia. “Mental health is almost uniformly worse in cities… that’s just what the data shows,” Meyer-Lindenberg says over the phone. “There isn’t really a bright side to this.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Lack of agency – the feeling that we don’t have control over a situation – is one of the core mechanisms determining how strongly social stress is experienced, says Meyer-Lindenberg. “People who are in leadership positions tend to cope better with a given amount of stress.” In a city, and particularly if you are poor, you are far more dependent on other people and the urban infrastructure, whether it’s waiting impatiently for a bus or a lift, wondering who you’ll have to share a lift with in your high-rise complex, or hoping the local council will not choose your neighborhood for redevelopment.</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/7glasgow.jpg" style="height:402px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Cities can also of course be liberating. “The flip side of being more stressful is that they may be more stimulating,” Meyer-Lindenberg says. “This tighter community that you have in a village, say, can be very oppressive if you don’t feel like you belong, if you’re an outsider of some sort.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Inequality has been shown to lower trust in others and damage social capital – the networks between people that allow societies to function effectively. People are so worried about security that they’re mentally building walls around themselves, says Liz Zeidler, chief executive of the Happy City Initiative, a research center based in Bristol. “We need to be doing the opposite: We need to be creating more and more spaces where people can connect, learn across their differences.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Happy City has designed a way to measure the local conditions shown to improve well-being. Its Thriving Places Index looks at housing, education, inequality, green space, safety and community cohesion.</p> <p> </p> <p>Perhaps, however, a good measure for the happiness of a place, Zeidler says, is the status of the “indicative species”. It’s an idea borrowed from the author and urbanist Charles Montgomery. For ponds, she says, it might be that the presence of a certain type of newt tells you whether or not the water is healthy. In cities, the newts are children. “If you can see children, it’s probably a healthy and happy city.” The way a city is laid out can foster this environment, she says, by “closing of streets, making it more pedestrianized, more green spaces, having more what urban planners would call ‘bumping spaces,’ where you can literally bump into people. Slowing places down is really good for everybody’s wellbeing and, obviously,” she adds, “you then see more children on the streets.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Without looking at the car swinging towards him, Christopher Martin, one of the urban planners behind the Avenues regeneration project of Glasgow city center, crosses the road. Thankfully, the car slows down. Martin continues, blithely, discussing the priority of pedestrians and rule 170 of the Highway Code. “Nicely acted, don’t you think?” quips Stephen O’Malley, a civic engineer and Martin’s colleague, who’s stayed safely on the curb beside me.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman used to perform a similar trick in the early 2000s. He would walk, usually with a journalist in tow, backwards, eyes closed, into a four-way crossing with no traffic lights or signs. Monderman believed roads were safer without traffic signs; in order to navigate unfamiliar routes, cars would slow down. The common sense of the drivers would act as a more powerful safety guard than any sign.</p> <p> </p> <p>“What we’re trying to do is to get people to interact with each other – be human beings,” Martin says as we continue to walk up Sauchiehall Street. “It’s a very dehumanizing effect stepping into a car.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Sauchiehall Street is the first area to be worked on as part of the Avenues, a £115 million project to form an integrated network of pedestrian and cycle routes on 17 roads and surrounding areas in the city center between the Clyde and Glasgow’s infamous motorway, which forms a near noose around the area. Glasgow’s central grid is mostly made of four-lane roads. When you walk across the city, the roads, some at a steep incline, others stretching towards a grey horizon, seem solely taken up with cars and buses. “The city will get what it invites,” says Martin. Now parts of these roads will be given over to those walking and biking, and to trees and benches.</p> <p> </p> <p>City planners the world over have a history of favoring the needs of cars. In 1955, Robert Moses, New York City parks commissioner, was planning to build a four-lane road through Washington Square Park. Some of the residents demurred, including journalist Jane Jacobs. In 1958, three years in to what would become a 14-year fight to save Greenwich Village, she wrote an article in <em>Fortune</em> magazine, which eventually formed the basis of her book <em>The Death and Life of American Cities</em>.</p> <p> </p> <p>To keep downtown activities “compact and concentrated,” Jacobs advocated removing cars. “The whole point is to make the streets more surprising, more compact, more variegated, and busier than before – not less so.” She argued against planners’ grand schemes that sought to demolish and redevelop, instead saying that cities should grow in line with what people want and how they use the spaces that already exist. “There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.”</p> <p> </p> <p>Giving priority to cars has distorted cities’ proportions, Martin says. “If you build at the scale of cars, you get wide roads, you get wide streets, you get cities which stretch out because cars are fast and cars are big.” Taking space away from cars gives the public realm back to the people. “It’s very anti-social being sat in a metal box by yourself,” he says. “The rise of urban loneliness and mental health [issues] to do with that disconnection is vast.”</p> <p> </p> <p>In Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street is being used as a proof of concept, while the other Avenues will be implemented over the next eight years. “The opportunity is that it’s an absolutely magnificent city,” Martin says, punctuating his excitement by sweeping his hair back. “It’s a grid system and the streets are so wide: there’s a lot of space. In one fell swoop, we’re going to make an enormous change.”</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article originally published in </strong><a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/urban-living-city-mental-health-glasgow-cities-happiness-regeneration/"><strong>Mosaic</strong></a><strong> under a </strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><strong>Creative Commons license</strong></a><strong>. Read the rest of the article </strong><a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/urban-living-city-mental-health-glasgow-cities-happiness-regeneration/"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Highbrow Magazine</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Image Sources:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><em>--<a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/tag-glasgow-street-art-2810648/">Calard</a> (Pixabay, Creative Commons)</em></p> <p> </p> <p><em>--<a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6199594">Robin Stott</a> (geograph.org.uk, Creative Commons)</em></p> <p> </p> <p><em>--<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glasgow_Merchant_city.jpg">Denis Jacquery</a> (Wikimedia.org, Creative Commons)</em></p> <p> </p> <p><em>--<a href="https://pxhere.com/en/photo/929326">Pxhere.com</a> (Creative Commons)</em></p> <p> </p> <p><em>--<a href="https://libreshot.com/silhouette-of-lonely-man-on-the-street/">Martin Vorel</a> (libreshot.com, Creative Commons)</em></p> <p> </p> <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glasgow_Victoria_Park.jpg">--Stara Blazkova</a> (Wikimedia, Creative Commons)</em></p> <p> </p> <p><em>--Cover photo: <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/city-street-road-urban-business-3314025/">STE92K</a> (Pixabay, Creative Commons)</em></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/glasgow" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">glasgow</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/scotland" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">scotland</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/urban-life" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">urban life</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/depression-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">depression</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/city-living" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">city living</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/high-rises" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">high rises</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/poverty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">poverty</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/social-welfare" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">social welfare</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/uk-austerity" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">the U.K. austerity</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/inner-cities" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">inner cities</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/population-health" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">population health</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/scottish" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">scottish</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/scots" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">scots</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Fleur Macdonald</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Sun, 27 Oct 2019 09:33:42 +0000 tara 9114 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10214-glasgow-s-war-against-anguish-urban-life#comments