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"Population boom sees Edinburgh set to overtake Glasgow"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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You can find the full statistics report "Edinburgh by Numbers" here:
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20247/edinburgh_by_numbers/1012/edinburgh_by_numbers
It's an interesting read.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Headline duff, set to overtake Glasgow in .... Just a few decades.
Glasgow 50-100,000 more?
Good report, graphics clever. 58 per cent of the Spanish people living in Scotland live in Edinburgh. There are slightly more Spanish people in Edinburgh than polish people too, 5500 approx. For both groups. But that is only 19per cent of the polish people living in Scotland.
Edinburgh has highest number of cyclists (equal with Dundee in percentage) lowest car users and biggest bus users.
Edinburgh comes out top on a lot of the good stuff. Bristol closest UK city.
These are my takes. Edinburgh also a dry place in climate and of course temperament. Former good for me, latter less so.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Glasgow also mercifully free of Paolozzi sculptures, other than doors of the Hunterian?
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The very first paolozzi I ever came across, fantastic doors.
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Goodness IWRATS you really do hate Paolozzi :)
Posted 8 years ago # -
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It’s been happening for more than a decade now, the inexorable growth of Edinburgh relative to Glasgow, but is it what people already living in Edinburgh really want?
While some fun can be had at the expense of Glaswegians in claiming Edinburgh will be larger than Glasgow in a couple of decades the truth is a little different. Measuring the population of cities by their council boundaries doesn’t give a true picture, with the people of Rutherglen – physically part of Glasgow not counted because they are in South Lanarkshire Council – being an example of how the statistics can give a false impression.
Nevertheless, Edinburgh is growing and growing fast, but has anyone taken the trouble to ask the residents if we want to expand? Have we had a city-wide debate about what it will mean and how we should manage such change? Of course not.
(Warning, contains muddled thinking.)
Posted 8 years ago # -
Glasgow population also growing would need to see the simila report that we had for Edinburgh recently. Guess polish as only 19%,of poles in Scotland in Edinburgh. So must be somewhere else.
You wonder where else can be built on even after filling in all the green belt and David Murray's garden city..?
State funded religious schools in Edinburgh were struggling and happy to take heathens (still chance with them) but now they are booming and only taking the baptised. Due to population growth.
Edinburgh fairly monocultural so migration is a positive as diversity, in evolutionary terms and in many other ways, helps a population.
The size and narrowness of the streets means that builders are responsible for increasing traffic ( bridge traffic from Fife etc too now that the kingdom is joined to Lothian by another bridge). If there were any far sighted politicians they would be able to show that population growth is fine if it could come without cars. Else we will become the Athens of the north with you only being allowed to bring a car into Edinburgh on Wednesdays.
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I think there are some political shenanigans involved in this though, Rutherglen and Bearsden are contiguous with Glasgow but not part of it for example.
Anyway, I've done my bit for the population.
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