The challenges and opportunities of ‘greening’ vacant and derelict land, Mike Batley
IT sounds seductively easy, instituting a nationwide programme that seeks to convert each and every plot of vacant and derelict land into a nature reserve.…
IT sounds seductively easy, instituting a nationwide programme that seeks to convert each and every plot of vacant and derelict land into a nature reserve.…
Jane Meagher is Scottish Labour councillor for Portobello / Craigmillar in Edinburgh, and convener of the city council’s Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work committee. She…
WEDNESDAY was an auspicious day for people in my line of work. It was the first European Coworking Day – here – and it couldn’t…
THERE’S a reasonable case to be made that, in Scotland, we have undergone two ‘built environment’ revolutions since the Second World War. The first, immediately…
IF there is broad consensus that it is fundamentally a good thing to include communities in delivering ‘good’ neighbourhoods (and that this is preferable to…
PRIOR to joining the charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, last year, I spent the better part of the previous decade travelling to various location across Britain…
WE do not have the luxury of time to deal with one crisis at a time. We need a win for climate change, a win…
SCOTTISH society was built around towns and villages. From the traditional clan system to today’s modern settlements, we’re a sociable nation that thrives on community…
THE honey tone of your exposed Douglas Fir frame proudly proclaims sustainability and a planet-loving rapprochement with nature; but under the ground lurks a dirty…
IN the last few weeks, two eminent broadsheet columnists coincidentally produced dovetailing pieces about the strategic need to remake housing policy. Will Hutton, in the Observer…
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