What is the Creative Class and Capital?
Glasgow City Vision for the next 50 years has just been put out for consultation. It raises some similar issues you highlight Mike in the sense that we have not really been able to match up (cross...
View ArticleStrategic versus Spatially Targeted Approaches to Regeneration
I have lived and recently returned to live in one of the first New life for Urban Scotland neighbourhoods: Ferguslie Park. I have seen the changes here beginning firstly from the comprehensive...
View ArticlePlacemaking, High Streets and Regeneration: Taking Stock on Where We Are Now
As the British Retail Consortium highlights in ‘21st century high streets’, our town centres and high streets were ailing long before the onset of the recession and the emerging economic recovery....
View ArticleWhat is Urbanism?
Urbanism – What is it? I appreciate this question. You can achieve some common ground but you can achieve a consensus by way of how we practice working with and within the urban context and the...
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Off to Naples on Sunday to work with city authorities, experts and public in assessing the city’s new TOD infrastructure. It’s a summer school for a new Research Network funded by the EU COST programme.
View ArticleProceedings of Scotland’s Towns Conference 2012: Creating New Stories for...
Scotland’s Towns Conference 2012: Creating New Stories for Scotland’s Towns… (Wednesday 7th November 2012 in Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland) The Scottish Government’s National Review of Town...
View ArticleBritain's housing crisis is deepening
Reblogged from IHURER Research and Policy Blog: Britain’s housing crisis appears to be deepening, and attracting widespread comment in the media. Professor Glen Bramley, Director of IHURER, explains...
View ArticleFOI on the High Street
Reblogged from Stirlingretail: I must have been one of the very first people to use the Freedom of Information Act, submitting my request to the Cabinet Office on the very first day possible. OK, it...
View ArticlePlaces Do Need Leaders: the impending Scottish Government’s Architecture and...
The first days of school are often the best: where leadership is derived and nurtured The Scottish Government are about to publish their policy statement on the impending architecture and place-making...
View ArticlePlanning for Outcomes
I am worried about outcomes as both the barometer and the benchmark for basing and measuring success. Is this a question of semantics here: the challenge of planning as activity or the challenge for...
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