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Mark Smith: Another student tower rises. But what does it mean for the rest of us?

Mark Smith: Another student tower rises. But what does it mean for the rest of us?

We’re in that glorious part of Glasgow that dips steeply down towards the river, but we’ re looking up – at the grand red steeple of St Columba’s, the Gaelic church, and at a giant crane, neck straining towards the blue and white, and at a pillar of concrete that has counted up 1, 2, 3, 4 and will keep going until it gets to 16. This is the start of another of the new towers, the student skyscrapers. But they raise a few down-to-earth questions don’t you think?

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