Bruce Report

The Bruce Report is the name commonly given to two urban redevelopment reports of the Glasgow Corporation (the former local authority area for the city). The reports led to an intensive programme of regeneration and rebuilding efforts which took place in the city and surroundings from the mid 1950s and lasted until the late 1970s.

Both reports were authored by a Glasgow Corporation Engineer of the time Robert Bruce lending them their collective name. The name encompasses the First planning report to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, which was published in the closing stages of the Second World War (March 1945) and the Clyde Valley Regional Plan. These reports recommended a series of initiatives designed to transform the city over the following fifty years.

Some of these initiatives were put into practice; others were not. The reports and their implementation significantly shaped modern day Glasgow, a good example of the scope of their impact being the M8 motorway which was built following proposals in the report. During the mid 20th century much of the city's population were resettled to new towns and housing schemes also following recommendations in Bruce's reports. The civic, economic, political, architectural, geographic and demographic landscape of modern Glasgow would have been radically different without the influence of these two reports. Had the Bruce Report been implemented in its entirety, the city would probably have been unrecognisable.