Glasgow has acted as an on-screen substitute for Philadelphia, New York and many other American cities.
One reason for this is the city centre’s grid-iron street plan, which resembles many in the US. How didBlythswood Street
Medieval Glasgow was a small town of two clusters – one based around the Cathedral and another around Glasgow Cross. In the middle of the 18th century, it began to expand around the crossed axes of its two primary streets: the High Street and Argyle Street/Trongate. These straight lines provided the basis for the city’s development. The area we call the Merchant City emerged next. One of the earliest general plans of Glasgow - a survey by John McArthur in 1778 - shows this space beginning to be filled up.Shortly afterwards, in 1782, the surveyor James Barry produced an updated plan which included the thoroughfares of Queen Street and Buchanan Street leading toward the new George Square, with a network of streets running along each side.
Just to the west of the city centre lay the 470-acre Blythswood estate which was owned by the Campbell family. By the end of the 18th century, Archibald Campbell decided that the time was right to maximise income on his family’s land. He took the decision to feu off the estate - a distinctively Scottish form of land transfer which means the feudal superior was paid an annual fee but retained ultimate ownership.
This proved lucrative: within 50 years the family’s rental income increased from £223 to £25,000. More importantly for the city however, the peculiarities of the feudal system meant that the family could still set out the
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