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Author	ResidualBiscuit
Comment	This just in, ScotGov are capitalists just like the rest and approve vanity projects to make money with little to no interest in any meaningful progressive change. Colour me stunned. For real though where are the flats being built that aren't for private developers like Lowther and Cala? We have a full scale housing crisis and yet all we see is these 'gentrification flats' and the americanised suburbs (eg, the site of the old NS&I next to Silverburn, or the back of Darnley at B&Q). Recently there was this bit of land next to Cardonald library that finally had the wee building tore off it. I thought good, can build a 4 in a block there of 2 or 3 bedroom units, if not more. What happened? 3 big massive fuck off houses with, shit you not, dining tables with about 10 seats that you can see from the PRW. Any concept of green infrastructure or viewing our cities to be walkable is moot. Its never going to happen. All developments are sold off to the highest bidder who wants to make the most money, and that always is either student flats or the aforementioned gentrification flats or American style suburbs. Walking down Trongate last night I noticed building site I hadn't clocked before. How many baws you betting its more of the same? Combine all this with our genuinely abysmal public transport infrastructure and all we are left with is the inevitable decline to car reliance and being pushed further out of the cities.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/yw3ynb/what_ever_happened_to_building_districts/iwkqpdx/
Created	Wed 16th Nov 2022 10:39am
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This just in, ScotGov are capitalists just like the rest and approve vanity projects to make money with little to no interest in any meaningful progressive change. Colour me stunned.

For real though where are the flats being built that aren't for private developers like Lowther and Cala? We have a full scale housing crisis and yet all we see is these 'gentrification flats' and the americanised suburbs (eg, the site of the old NS&I next to Silverburn, or the back of Darnley at B&Q).

Recently there was this bit of land next to Cardonald library that finally had the wee building tore off it. I thought good, can build a 4 in a block there of 2 or 3 bedroom units, if not more. What happened? 3 big massive fuck off houses with, shit you not, dining tables with about 10 seats that you can see from the PRW.

Any concept of green infrastructure or viewing our cities to be walkable is moot. Its never going to happen. All developments are sold off to the highest bidder who wants to make the most money, and that always is either student flats or the aforementioned gentrification flats or American style suburbs. Walking down Trongate last night I noticed building site I hadn't clocked before. How many baws you betting its more of the same?

Combine all this with our genuinely abysmal public transport infrastructure and all we are left with is the inevitable decline to car reliance and being pushed further out of the cities.