The city has changed enormously over the last 10 years.

What developments are likely to have a profound effect on the city over the next ten?

As a starter, could it be:

1. Completion of all riverside developments, including Tradeston and the remainder of Glasgow Harbour, SECC etc
2. Completion of the M74 extension to the south of the Kingston bridge
3. Dare I say it, CHQ / St Enochs / Dixon Street etc ?
4. A Revamped George Square
5. Sustainable transport strategy, ie the proposed Fastlink
6. Selfridges
7. IFSD and Cheapside
8. Elphinstone Place
9. Anything by GM+AD ;)

(PS Yes I know there is a Glasgow 2020 thread but that seemed to go off topic very quickly and degenerate into a discussion on the perenial favourites of graffiti and litter!)

Glasgow needs to look to it it's whole. It needs to look at it's perimeter, needs to look at future...so potentially a good thread Momus.

Is Glasgow totally economically driven, in terms of reliance of it's IFSD? Is that a bad thing or is it a good thing? Should we still have manufacturing industry? Will we in 2016 be sustaining or increasing population or will we have failed?

The latest paradigm to come from the world's futurologists is that the knowledge economy is as good as dead in the West - long live the creative economy.

Glasgow needs to make sure that everything it does is geared towards effectively staying ahead of the game in terms of securing jobs. Without a critical mass, speciality or niche within the city, it will become very easy very quickly for companies to shift jobs elsewhere in the UK or around the globe.

Very general, broad statements I know; but essentially that's how I'd like to see Glasgow approach the future. It's a fight for survival.

9. Anything by GM+AD

Hence GM + Ad's Futuristic perspective of the City

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Glasgow needs to make sure that everything it does is geared towards effectively staying ahead of the game in terms of securing jobs. Without a critical mass, speciality or niche within the city, it will become very easy very quickly for companies to shift jobs elsewhere in the UK or around the globe

Hence the creation of Pacific Quay and City Science which will become the hub of technological brilliance and creative excellence for scotland as a whole.

I just Love this city :) (its not Terrys its mine all mine) as Dawn French says.