The Council meets the first and third Monday of each month, 7: 00 pm, in the City Council Chambers at City Hall.

The front of the City Chambers, from George Square.

City Chambers viewed from George Square.

The Banqueting Hall of the City Chambers.

In 1923, an extension to the east side of the building in John Street was opened and in 1984 Exchange House in George Street was completed, increasing the size of the City Chambers complex to some 14, 000 square metres.

In the early 1880s, City Architect John Carrick was asked to identify a suitable site for a purpose built City Council Chambers.

The new City Chambers initially housed Glasgow Town Council from 1888 to 1895, when it was replaced by Glasgow Corporation.

The City Chambers has been the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, when it replaced the District Council with the abolition of the Strathclyde Region.

This is where the Council meets formally, and is one of the most impressive rooms in the City Chambers, featuring rich Spanish mahogany panelling.

* Dunfermline City Chambers

* Edinburgh City Chambers

Dean and other members of the City Council were openly mocked at a city-sponsored art festival where a satirical, mock City Council meeting was staged in which actors took over the Council Chambers and ridiculed Berkeley's elected officials.

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

In 1970, only 833 people lived " south of Chambers Street "; by 1990 ; 13, 782 people were residents with the addition of areas such as Battery Park City and Southbridge Towers.

In his annual budget address in City Council Chambers on October 15, 2008, Daley proposed a 2009 budget totalling $ 5. 97 billion, including not filling 1, 350 vacancies on the 38, 000-strong city payroll and $ 150 million in new revenue from a then-obscure parking meter lease deal to help erase a $ 469 million budget shortfall.

Four Forums were held prior to the Portsmouth Peace Treaty 100th anniversary in the City Council Chambers at Portsmouth City Hall.

Glasgow became one of the largest cities in the world, and known as " the Second City of the Empire " after London.

Glasgow City Art Gallery

On June 30, 1800, the authorities of Glasgow, Scotland successfully petitioned the government to pass the Glasgow Police Act establishing the City of Glasgow Police.

* January 1 – Glasgow begins its year as European City of Culture.

University, City & State: The University of Glasgow since 1870 ( 2000 )

* Former Glasgow Herald offices in Mitchell Street, now The Lighthouse – Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City

The rediscovery of Mackintosh as a significant figure in design is attributed by some to the designation of Glasgow as European City of Culture in 1990, and the exhibition of his work which accompanied the year-long festival.

* John McKean, " Glasgow: from ' Universal ' to ' Regionalist ' City and beyond-from Thomson to Mackintosh ", in Sources of Regionalism in 19th Century Architecture, Art and Literature, ed.

The four districts of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow had City included in their titles by the Act.

The Lord Mayors and Provosts of Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, City of London and York have the further right to be styled " The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor " ( or Provost ), although they are not members of the Privy Council as this style usually indicates.

Five examples of this are Manchester ( where the traditional area associated includes areas of the neighbouring authorities of Trafford, Tameside, Oldham, Bury and the City of Salford ), Kingston upon Hull ( where surrounding areas and villages that are effectively suburbs, such as Cottingham, come under East Riding of Yorkshire Council ), Glasgow ( where suburban areas of the city are located in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire ), Wolverhampton ( areas of the neighbouring authorities of Walsall, Dudley and South Staffordshire ) and, most obviously, London ( Greater London outside the City of London ).

The cars had gates at each end, similar to those on the City and South London Railway and the Glasgow Subway.

Governmental and tax raising boundaries separate Milngavie and Bearsden, along with other wealthy dormitory towns like Newton Mearns and Giffnock, from the City of Glasgow unitary authority area.

Barren is a prohibition or dry county, with the exception of Cave City, which voted in 2005 to become " moist " ( selling only liquor by the drink in restaurants of a certain minimum size and which derive 70 % or more of their revenue from food ), and Glasgow, which approved liquor by the drink under the same restrictions on November 6, 2007, after three previous elections to allow full alcohol sales in the city being soundly defeated.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

The " Dear Green Place " and " City of God " required government troops to put down the rioters tearing up copies of the Treaty, as at almost every mercat cross in Scotland.

Non-league sides include Spartans and Edinburgh City, who play in the East of Scotland League along with Civil Service Strollers F. C., Lothian Thistle F. C., Edinburgh University A. F. C., Leith Athletic F. C., Tynecastle F. C., Craigroyston F. C.

Category: City chambers and town halls in Scotland

Aberdeen in Scotland, which is constructed principally from local granite, is known as " The Granite City ".

* Manu ( River City ), a character on a BBC Scotland soap opera

In 2002, as the ratings continued to fall for Scottish serial High Road ( formerly Take The High Road ), BBC Scotland launched River City, which proved popular and effectively replaced High Road when it was cancelled in 2003.

Of the 66 cities in the United Kingdom, the City of London is among the 30 that have Lord Mayors ( or, in Scotland, Lords Provost ).

Also in 1955, Silver City launched its first air ferry services between Scotland and Ireland and its first such service from the Midlands.

At its peak, Silver City operated 222 daily ferry flights across the English Channel, as well as between Scotland and Ireland and to / from the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

* Freedom of the City ( Edinburgh, Scotland, 1965 )

It lies about from Scotland and from New York City.

* One of the self-catered halls of residences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland ( situated in the south of the City ), is named after Lord Kitchener ( Kitchener House ).

Albemarle and Pamlico sounds in North Carolina, Great South Bay between Long Island and the barrier beaches of Fire Island in New York, Isle of Wight Bay, which separates Ocean City, Maryland from the rest of Worcester County, Maryland, Banana River in Florida, Lake Illawarra in New South Wales, Montrose Basin in Scotland, and Broad Water in Wales have all been classified as lagoons, despite their names.

In 1486, King James III of Scotland elevated Kirkwall to the status of a royal burgh ; modern roadsigns still indicate " The City and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall ".

The Firth of Tay ( Scottish Gaelic: Linne Tatha ) is a firth in Scotland between the council areas of Fife, Perth and Kinross, the City of Dundee and Angus, into which Scotland's largest river in terms of flow, the River Tay empties.

Almost all of Scotland is a part of the Archer City Independent School District.

Newhaven is a district in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, between Leith and Granton and about north of the city centre.

* June 1999 Global carnival against capital ; London ; Scotland ; Nigeria ; Czech Republic ; Los Angeles ; Germany ; Australia ; Spain ; New York City.

In Scotland, the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh used a system in multiples of sixteen.

BBC One Scotland variations include the soap opera River City and the football programme Sportscene, the inclusion of which causes network programming to be displaced or replaced.

Sandy Calder's grandfather, sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, was born in Scotland, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1868, and is best-known for the colossal statue of William Penn on top of Philadelphia City Hall's tower.