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…
Tag: New Town Dreams
A compendium of courtyards
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…
A tale of two Lintons
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…
Tall, narrow buildings for a small public square?
IF we are agreed that the first mark on a blank sheet of paper – when it comes to designing a new town – is…
Where to begin, designing a new town?
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…
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’.…
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…