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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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