July 12th 2008
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These short film clips featuring Lewis Mumford, author of the City in History, were recently published on the Planum website.
Before the end of 1961 the New York publishing company Harcourt, Brace and Co. had the first edition of Lewis Mumford's highly successful book The City In History ready for publication. ...
by Drew Mackie
It has become fashionable to talk of networks of organisations, people, computers, transport and so on. In organisations there is talk of being more “networky” and getting away from the older more hierarchical ways of doing things. Conferences are organised around “networking” both formal and informal.
Yet, the more ...
May 31st 2007
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Willie Miller is a member of a number of teams chosen by the Improvement Service to deliver Design Awareness Training to Scottish local authorities.
As part of the team led by Drew Mackie, we delivered a well attended two day introduction to urban design to an enthusiastic and well informed ...
We have been commissioned by the States of Jersey to carry out an Urban Character Appraisal of St Helier. This appraisal of the urban character and townscape of the town of St. Helier is intended to be an aid to the process of preserving and enhancing the character of the ...
January 15th 2003
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Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire have appointed us to carry out an assessment of the economic impact that has been achieved by the Ayrshire Paths project, focusing specifically on the village of Straiton in South Ayrshire.
Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire, with the support of local Councils, Scottish Natural Heritage and other bodies ...
May 5th 2001
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A study for RUDI and SCRAN, with Drew Mackie Associates as lead consultant, which examines some of the important characteristics of urban design in Scotland including resumes of major projects in Leith, Edinburgh, the Merchant City and Crown Street in Glasgow. The completed study has been published on the ...