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    Tag: The Friday Column

    Creative placemaking – necessary, not just nice to have, Matt Baker

    I WANT to start by saying something about creativity, in general. When I use using the word, ‘creativity’, I’m meaning a way of working that…

    admin June 9, 2023

    Scottish can-do approach to Passivhaus, Sarah Lewis

    AT the start of this year, Scottish Government minister, Patrick Harvie, announced to parliament plans (here) to “introduce new minimum environmental design standards for all new-build…

    admin June 2, 2023

    Tollcross maybe first, but how exactly?, Mike Wilson

    HE was a fellow passenger on the overnight bus from Edinburgh to London. If I clocked his name at the time, I have long since…

    admin May 26, 2023

    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.…

    admin May 19, 2023

    Coworking to build community, Claire Carpenter

    WEDNESDAY was an auspicious day for people in my line of work. It was the first European Coworking Day – here – and it couldn’t…

    admin May 12, 2023

    Time for a national institution to take the lead in placemaking?, Prof Stuart Gulliver

    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…

    admin May 5, 2023
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    Shifting from consultation to co-production with communities, Nick Wright

    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…

    admin April 28, 2023

    Scotland’s empty homes, Andy Moseley

    SCOTLAND is facing a housing emergency. A chronic shortage of housing is leading to increasing numbers of people in temporary accommodation and longer housing waiting…

    admin April 21, 2023

    Litter: the solution is in everyone’s hands, Laura Watson

    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…

    admin April 14, 2023

    Why heat networks are the answer, Simon Kerr

    IT is a welcome move, indeed, the Scottish Government’s request of every local authority in the land, that they submit plans (by the end of…

    admin March 24, 2023
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