Adopting the strategy of depressing the motorway along its current course, this group focused on the opportunities in Glasgow to reconnect isolated areas and bring City usage towards the motorway rather than away from it. The important moves in this program include bridges across the River Clyde, street extensions over …
This strategy group based their recommendations on the tunnelling of the M8 and connecting Clydeside Expressway. By tunneling the M8 but retaining it’s original route, the beneficial network connections that the motorway has with the City are retained while countless new benefits are obtained as the Urban Tissue at ground …
What is the least intrusive method of mending the harm caused by large- scale infrastructure? Leave it as it is! The minimal change group explored the ways in which Glasgow’s Urban Fabric and the City as a whole could prosper without intervention on the motorway. This group explored noise reduction …
Following the example of cities like San Francisco and Seoul, this group explored the options of converting the M8 into an Urban Boulevard. Running the same course as the existing M8, the new boulevard is an option that maintains and improves on the existing connectivity benefits of the M8, but …
The overall scope of the strategic phase is the generation of strategic programmes for the development and management of transformation in the study area within its immediate territorial context. This module aims to assist students in developing realistic urban regeneration programmes for the transformation of the immediate areas along the …
