Public Space in Different Cultural Conditions: The Cases of Glasgow and Poznań

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The percentage rate of respondents who mentioned the selected place as one of their answers to the question: ‘Please enumerate three places that you would decide to show a person visiting Glasgow/Poznań for the first time’_

No	Poznań			Glasgow
	Place	Description	%	Place	Description	%
1.	Old Market Square	Main square (part of Old Town)	65.3	Kelvingrove Gallery	Museum / art. gallery	31.9
2.	Citadel	Green area / cemetery	32.1	George Square	Main square	22.9
3.	Malta Lake	Lake / recreational area / green area	26.0	Botanic Gardens	Green area	19.9
4.	New ZOO	Zoo / green area	13.0	Glasgow University	University / historic building	15.8
5.	Stary Browar	Shopping Mall / entertainment centre	11.9	Riverside Museum	Museum	11.3
6.	CK Zamek	Cultural centre / historic building	11.7	Buchanan Street	Retail street	10.0
7.	Ostrów Tumski	Island / historic area / sacred area	10.6	kelvingrove Park	Green area	8.6
8.	Palm House	Palm house	9.7	Glasgow Cathedral	Historic church	7.2
9.	Cathedral	Historic church (part of site 7)	6.8	Glasgow Green	Green area / palm house	7.2
10.	Old Town	Central city district	6.2	Necropolis	Green area / cemetery	6.8

The percentage rate of the respondents who mentioned the selected category as one of their answers to the question: ‘Which three types of behaviour or events you associate with public space’_

No	Poznań		Glasgow
	Type of activity	%	Type of activity	%
1	Concerts	26.9	Art	15.4
2	Demonstrations, protests	20.2	Concerts	12.8
3	Festivals, fairs	18.6	Sports	12.2
4	Sports	16.4	Socialising	9.6
5	Walking	13.6	Shopping	9.0

Characteristics of the respondents in Poznań_

Socio-demographic feature	Number of respondents	%
Sex
Female	273	50.1
Male	265	48.6
No data	7	1.3
Age
< 19	19	3.5
19–25	248	45.5
26–35	127	23.3
36–45	49	9.0
46–55	47	8.6
56–65	23	4.2
> 65	26	4.8
No data	6	1.1
Education
Elementary school	12	2.2
Vocational school	39	7.2
High school	108	19.8
Vocational secondary school	62	11.4
University (bachelor’s / engineering degree)	183	33.6
University (master’s degree)	133	24.4
No data	8	1.5
House type
Detached house	77	14.1
Semi-detached house	35	6.4
Block of flats of old type	118	21.7
Block of flats of new type	101	18.5
Tower block	109	20.0
Tenement / Town house	94	17.2
No data	11	2.0
Years of residence
< 3	105	19.3
3–5	118	21.7
6–10	66	12.1
> 10	245	45.0
No data	11	2.0
Origin
Poznań	214	39.3
Poland	320	58.7
No data	11	2.0

Characteristics of the respondents in Glasgow_

Socio-demographic feature	Number of respondents	%
Sex
Female	336	48.7
Male	268	38.8
No data	86	12.5
Age
< 19	85	12.3
19–25	219	31.7
26–35	69	10.0
36–45	62	9.0
46–55	59	8.6
56–65	47	6.8
> 65	63	9.1
No data	86	12.5
Education
Elementary school	16	2.3
Vocational school	22	3.2
High school	103	14.9
Vocational secondary school	1	0.1
University (bachelor’s / engineering degree)	332	48.1
University (master’s degree)	110	15.9
No data	106	15.4
House type
Detached house	141	20.4
Semi-detached house	164	23.8
Block of flats of old type	117	17.0
Block of flats of new type	88	12.8
Tower block	4	0.6
Tenement / Town house	73	10.6
No data	103	14.9
Years of residence
< 3	166	24.1
3–5	55	8.0
6–10	24	3.5
> 10	312	45.2
No data	133	19.3
Origin
Glasgow	223	32.3
Scotland	241	34.9
Other part of UK	110	15.9
No data	116	16.8

The categories of space most often mentioned in the answers to the question: ‘Please enumerate three places that you would decide to show a person visiting Glasgow/Poznań for the first time’_

No	Poznań		Glasgow
	Category	%	Category	%
1	City square / market square	32.6	Museum	25.5
2	Green area	22.2	Green area	15.0
3	Historic building	7.0	City square / market square	8.3
4	City district	5.5	City district	8.0
5	Shopping mall	5.2	Street	5.7