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

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

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  1. Understanding Glasgow and the Glasgow Indicators Bruce Whyte, GLADS: Good Lives And Decent Societies, Thursday 15th May 2014

  2. City Strategy Action Plan

  3. Growing a Healthier Glasgow

  4. 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 

  5. 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

  6. ‘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

  7. Trends

  8. An increasingly multi-cultural Glasgow

  9. Environment (and inequalities)

  10. In-work poverty

  11. Glasgow Neighbourhoods

  12. Male Life Expectancy: Neighbourhood level

  13. www.internationalfuturesforum.com

  14. Glasgow Game events

  15. How to effectively address the key challenges around alcohol and drugs in GlasgowGRAND 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 foodUrban Roots, March 2014 How to address health issues appropriately within Glasgow & Clyde Valley’s 2nd Strategic Development PlanMay 1st 2014 Glasgow Game Events

  16. A resource for understanding Glasgow better and for thinking about how the city could be different in the future

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