A keynote presentation to the Liveable Cities conference promoted by The Danish Embassy in the UK in 4/5 November 2024. The talk takes its title from the work of the independent Place Commission for Glasgow chaired by the City Urbanist and the final report PEOPLE make PLACES.

The Place Commission concentrated on three themes established by the City Urbanist with particular resonance for Glasgow based on the city’s profile and identity:

The International City - Glasgow’s burgeoning international profile based on sport, major events and a culture of diversity and inclusion;

The Metropolitan City - a mesoscale regional proposition where the coherent urban area is, as with Glasgow, spatially greater than the administrative area; and

The Everyday City - the interaction of citizens, businesses and visitors at the local detailed scale where daily transaction and quality of life are at their most immediate and visceral for human experience.

In this paper, Prof B M Evans explores the concept of liveability across a metropolitan area when life is experienced simultaneously at the regional scale and the extreme local.