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Councils could lose prized assets in lease-law change | Herald Scotland http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/councils-could-lose-prized-assets-in-lease-law-change.16516953 

This year's NGS Guided Tour schedule starts today, Sunday 22 January. The year of tours will look at Glasgow's history roughly in reverse, with walks outside the city centre working our way to where it all began at the Cross and Cathedral.

Today is a scene-setter, and takes place outside the mediaeval city but in the most central shopping area. We start at St Enoch and will walk up Buchanan Street, looking at locations and buildings which the other tours will…

Read the Obituary at the following link:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary_isi_metzstein_esteemed_architect_who_made_a_life_in_scotland_after_escaping_nazi_germany_as_a_child_1_2058693

Picture of Andy Macmillan and Isi Metzstein…

The Vision for Glasgow over the next 50 years is now open for public consumption so why not let your views be known and take part by responding to the consultation? I have attached the full document and a summary of the Vision here (pdf files). …

The 'Red Road Underground' exhibition by Chris Leslie & Mitch Miller will be hosted in the NGS space this February with presentations & discussion date to be confirmed in the next few weeks.

For more information see their fabulous website:

www.redroadunderground.co.uk/

and to support their exhibition you can donate on:…

Get involved with our current Postcard Project, to keep discussion about the Broomielaw moving on. All ideas submitted, from Members of the Society and any other interested parties, will be exhibited at the NGS shop in the not too…

Thanks to all who turned out at the Broomielaw yesterday. And to STV for covering the article, which can be seen here. Please forward the link on to contacts and friends.

And also…

http://broomielaw.org/

A message to all members of New Glasgow Society

SAVE THE BROOMIELAW!

MEET AT THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE- BROOMIELAW QUAY…

Interesting urban intervention amongst brutal/functional infrastructure, in…

As mentioned, there were several questions, via the medium of text message, during our Pecha Kucha talk last week. The answers to these are below. For purpose of making sense of some of this, I was lying down during the talk:

1. Is the society influencing planning in the city?

Yes. NGS has an active interest in planning in Glasgow, and has a seat on the Glasgow Urban Design Panel. We also…

There's an interesting exhibition on at the moment at the Lighthouse, called City Visions 1910 / 2010, contrasting urban planning in several cities, across a 100 year divide. There's more information…

Online contemporary civic…

"It has come to us from a dystopia where the rulers of the world pass their lives in glass towers way above the mean streets. Down there the excluded loot and burn, and the sky-dwellers profess to be shocked by their lack of morality."

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A Future for St Peter's Seminary? SAVING SCOTLAND'S MASTERPIECE OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

The online Dictionary of the Scots Language (http://www.dsl.ac.uk/) defines 'law' as:

Law, n.² Add: b. `A mound of earth and shingle on the bank of a river on to which salmon nets are drawin to be emptied'

It may be deduced that the section of the north bank of the Clyde west of the city centre was a place where whin or broom thrived, hence the Broomielaw.