Bruce Whyte, GLADS: Good Lives And Decent Societies, Thursday 15th May 2014

Understanding Glasgow

and the Glasgow Indicators

City Strategy Action Plan

Growing a Healthier Glasgow

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 PrinciplesA 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

Trends

An increasingly multi-cultural Glasgow

Environment (and inequalities)

In-work poverty

Glasgow Neighbourhoods

Male Life Expectancy: Neighbourhood level

www.internationalfuturesforum.com

Glasgow Game events

Glasgow Game Events• How to effectively address the key challenges around

alcohol and drugs in Glasgow GRAND week, Sept 2013

• How the food environment in Glasgow can be changed for the better Oct 2013

• How Glasgow could become a more connected city Oct 2013

• How Glasgow could become a more inclusive city Glasgow Disability Alliance, March 2014

• How to enable every Glasgow resident to be able to grow their own food Urban Roots, March 2014

• How to address health issues appropriately within Glasgow & Clyde Valley’s 2nd Strategic Development Plan May 1st 2014

A resource for understanding Glasgow better and for thinking about how the city could be

different in the future