What people think and feel about George Square today.

How people use George Square today.

People were asked what brought them to George Square as it is today, and if they went there often. The question was open-ended allowing people to use their own words that offers their personal perspective. Across all methods, a total of 1,478 shared what brings them to George Square today. These have been evaluated to find a common set of purposes.

Describing George Square today.

People were asked to select up to five different words or phrases that best matched what they think about George Square today. Based on analysis of previous discussions, comments and TripAdvisor reviews on George Square, a pool of 29 words or phrases were offered to choose from, or people could ‘add their own’. The pool of words and phrases were selected so there was a range of positive, ambiguous and negative options to choose from.

Made with Flourish

You can explore the different relationship and connection between words that were used together in the below interactive graphic.

Made with Flourish

What George Square means to Glasgow

In order to find out what place George Square has in the city of Glasgow today, people were asked to complete the sentence:

George Square is Glasgow’s...

The question was open-ended allowing people to use their own words that offers their personal perspective. Across all methods, a total of 1,498 completed the sentence. These answers have been evaluated to find what the most common responses were. These are detailed below with a summarised completion of the sentence representing the main sentiment of responses, and the number of times recorded.

You can view the full results document of the Citywide Conversation by clicking here.