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the Biggar Agenda | three lessons for other places
Working with Kevin Murray Associates, WMUD, Hamilton-Baillie Associates and VivID Ideas & Solutions, we’ve recently completed The Biggar Agenda: a community strategy for the next ten years. This is...
Future Glasgow | a city vision for the next 50 years
Glasgow City Council has just launched a public consultation on its City Vision for 2061 – its vision to shape the city’s future.
This should be big news. It will shape what kind of city Glasgow w...
from starchitects to localism | a new political dawn
Most of us are familiar with the idea of starchitects – get Norman Foster to design your Reichstag dome, or Frank Gehry to design you a new Guggenheim museum, and your city will get an economic s...
getting the best out of planning
Over the last year, Seamus Lalor and I have been running a series of 17 seminars for ACSEF in and around Aberdeen. The title of the seminars was Getting the best out of planning. ACSEF commission...
when I say that I'm a planner...
This article originally appeared on the Public Art Scotland website in March 2011, the first in a new occasional series of Thoughts and Responses in which two different specialists are encouraged t...
Pre-Application Consultation | consult people on design, not the principle
I've been co-facilitating a series of workshops in Aberdeen with Seamus Lalor Associates over the last year or so, for ACSEF in Aberdeen city and shire - as I explained in this earlier post.
The...