Pipes being laid to provide low-carbon heating in new town
THE first pipes in a heating network for a ‘new town’ in Midlothian have been laid – to provide an anticipated 3,000 homes with ‘low-carbon…
THE first pipes in a heating network for a ‘new town’ in Midlothian have been laid – to provide an anticipated 3,000 homes with ‘low-carbon…
IN Scotland, the term, ‘gated community’, has somewhat pejorative connotations. But tell that to the good people of Seville, Turin, Bologna and even Copenhagen, where…
THERE’S almost no difference at all, when it comes to the population sizes of the villages, East Linton and West Linton. According to estimates from…
IF we are agreed that the first mark on a blank sheet of paper – when it comes to designing a new town – is…
SO, where to begin, designing the layout to a new town? When it comes to making that first mark on a piece of paper, there…
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…
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