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’.…
Tag: New Town Dreams
District design lessons from Copenhagen
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…
Vauban reflections
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…
Campaign option No.3: Creating a new town, like Vauban
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.…
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…
Vauban factfile
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…
So, why not a Scots version of Vauban?
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…
Adding up all those green fields into a new town
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,…
What we might learn from Scotland’s New Towns
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…
New town dreams. If I could wave a magic wand…
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…