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Some
significant events which have helped shape the City's development include:
Early 20th
Century
- 1900 the
height of industrial production
- 1914-1918
First World War boosted the City's heavy industries
1930s
- 1938 Empire
Exhibition held. It attracted 13 million visitors
- 1939 Population
peaked at 1,128,473
1940s
- 1945 'Bruce
Plan' - proposal to introduce new transport routes, reduce housing densities
and build industrial estates
1950s
- 1958 first
multi-storey house building started
1960s
- 1960 suburban
electrified rail network opened
- 1962 tram
cars withdrawn from service
- 1964 Clyde
Tunnel opened
- 1967 Red
Road flats opened - the highest housing blocks in Europe
1970s
- 1970 Kingston
Bridge, motorway crossing of River Clyde opened
1980s
- 1981 Nelson
Mandela awarded the Freedom of the City
- 1983 Burrell
Collection opened and 'Glasgow's Miles Better' campaign instigated
- 1985 Scottish
Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) opened
- 1987 Princes
Square Shopping Centre opened
- 1988 National
Garden Festival attracts 4.25 million visitors
- 1989 St
Enoch shopping centre and The New Museum of Transport opened
1990s
- 1990 City
is designated European City of Culture, Glagow Royal Concert Hall opened
- 1999 Glasgow
hosts the 1999 UK City of Architecture and Design, The Lighthouse building
opens, Buchanan Galleries
shopping centre opened - the largest city
centre shopping mall in Scotland
21st Century
- 2000 Official
opening of Hampden Park - Scotland's redeveloped National Football Stadium
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