Interesting little video on my home city. It covers a lot of the problems and doesn't go down the route of attacking the planber's motivations but I'm not surd how you can at the same time celebrate the Victorians and denigrate them. Maintaining medieval buildings at a time when there was such rapid expansion was impossible. Given we are already 'Tinderbox City', bemoaning the loss of thatched roofs seems naive.
It's also simplistic to argue that the St Enoch's Hotel was demolished to make way for the shopping centre. The change to the railways meant St Enoch's was a railway hotel without a railway. Combined with the general economic downturn, it become a monument to pointlessness and decay. Any council spending money on saving it would have been castigated as their stock of council housing fell apart.
https://youtu.be/R8BHSpU3aNI
