Place and Scottish Government announcements (a work-in-progress list)
IT requires a fair amount of patient detective work to pin down the various Scottish Government documents that range across the subject of ‘place design’.…
IT requires a fair amount of patient detective work to pin down the various Scottish Government documents that range across the subject of ‘place design’.…
IT began with a scoping exercise, which fed into the brief of an ideas competition, and continues with constant dialogue with the general public. Some…
IT was 12 years ago when I wrote up my experiences of a visit to Vauban. I had been part of a Scottish Government delegation…
It’s an occupational hazard, running a media outlet such as Place Design Scotland: there is never any shortage of ideas, including potential campaigns and projects.…
THE latest announcement from the Scottish Government that is about place design – ‘Regenerating the future of Scotland’s town centres’ (here) – has ‘Vauban’ written…
Site of a former army barracks Total area: 41 hectares, of which 16.4 ha residential, 1.6 ha industrial, 2.6 ha ‘green’ spaces, 12.4 ha traffic…
IN these pressing times of climate change and responses such as the ’20-minute neighbourhoods’ (to reduce the reliance on cars to access life’s essentials), perhaps…
If we are relaxed (at least relatively) at the prospect of housing on ‘greenfield’ sites, why not encourage these developments to amalgamate into a single,…
SCOTLAND’s New Towns (East Kilbride 1947, Glenrothes 1948, Cumbernauld 1956, Livingston 1962 and Irvine 1966) were an early example of so-called ‘public interest-led development’ (PILD), set up in the…
IF I could wave a magic wand, I would invest in a brand-new conurbation between Edinburgh and Glasgow called ‘Glasburgh’ (I admit, I’ve borrowed the…
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