| Comment | >How is Glasgow City Council allowed to let the once great city rot?
You hear variations on this on here and countless other places quite often. People pine for the past but don't seem to think too deeply about the substantial factors which mean what was normal then cannot exactly be reproduced today.
Besides decisions taken by any political leadership at any given point inside the city over the past century... people need to get their heads around the fact there are basic differences in what a city which was *stupendously* flush with money as a powerhouse manufacturing hub and second 'home' city of the preeminent *global empire* of its time looked like 150 years ago... and Glasgow today. The two situations are not comparable.
I know this is an innocent post pining for nice old streetlights, but it speaks to a very common tendency to disregard fundamental, centuries long economic factors and blame everything on "the city council". |
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