Edinburgh’s post-war listed buildings
SOME 70 post-war buildings in Edinburgh have been awarded a historic listing. As of August 22, when the data was last compiled by listings managers…
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Setting up a Stove
MIX a group of artists and an empty town centre building and the resulting alchemy is potentially a version of The Stove Network, the highly-lauded…
The Inch: Edinburgh’s ‘Garden City’
WE were that family. Over the decades, five generations living in what The Scotsman newspaper described as the worst slum in the city. The bottom…
The restoration of properties on Dumfries High Street
THE contractors are already on site and work is progressing to turn previously vacant buildingst into a combination of ‘enterprise’ space on the ground and…
The promise of a rose garden
THE way Sheena Pool describes it, it’s the epitome of simplicity to plant and maintain a rose garden. If the name sounds familiar, she was…
A bookshop for a town
A TOWN isn’t a town without a bookstore. So the author, Neil Gaiman, is attributed as having said. Scotland boasts dozens, if not hundreds, of…
Building regs challenge presented by ‘COP26’ house design
IF there is a conversation to be had about to what extent the country’s building regulations address the pressing issue of our times – climate…
Vauban and Scottish Government policies
THE latest announcement from the Scottish Government that is about place design – ‘Regenerating the future of Scotland’s town centres’ (here) – has ‘Vauban’ written…
Reducing car congestion in cities
What might be the most effective way of reducing car congestion in our cities? A team of researchers, from Lund University, in Sweden, searched for…
Car clubs
ALMOST 31,000 people in Scotland are estimated to be members of schemes involving the sharing of cars. According to the shared transport charity, CoMoUK, the…