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Understanding Glasgow and the Glasgow Indicators. Bruce Whyte, GLADS: Good Lives And Decent Societies , Thursday 15th May 2014. City Strategy Action Plan. Growing a Healthier Glasgow. Our Aims. To create a resource that:
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Understanding Glasgow and the Glasgow Indicators Bruce Whyte, GLADS: Good Lives And Decent Societies, Thursday 15th May 2014
Our Aims To create a resource that: • Is accessible and informs a wide audience about the wellbeing of Glasgow’s population • allows progress to be monitored • encourages civic engagement in the cross-cutting issues that face the city
Guiding Principles A basket of indicators, rather than one index, representing a dynamic interlinked view of the city Focus on themes that are clear priorities for the city Providing a strategic overview Trends to be monitored over time Inequality, or difference, within the city to be monitored Comparisons to be made to neighbouring local authorities, Scottish cities, comparator UK cities and to European cities, where possible
‘Glasgow is, indeed, a very fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together…in a word ‘tis the cleanest and beautifulest, and best-built city in Britain, London excepted’ A tour through the whole island of Great Britain, Daniel Defoe,1724-1726
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A resource for understanding Glasgow better and for thinking about how the city could be different in the future