September 9th 2009
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The study was commissioned by Glasgow City Council and carried out by a consultant team led by Yellow Book (lead), Kevin Murray Associates, WMUD, Ryden and Meg Clark Associates. The original brief called for an economic study of the Glasgow City Centre North area. However, in our response to ...
August 31st 2009
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Belfast has seen a phenomenal growth in tourism in the past decade and has moved to a position where it is in Tourism Ireland terms the number two destination in Ireland. The city has seen a range of accommodation developed over a short period and major attractions such as Odyssey ...
This was a pre-feasibility study into the creation of a potential EcoQuarter at North Kensal commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in April 2008. It explored whether the Council’s current vision for the site – comprising placemaking, regeneration, sustainability and transport infrastructure aspirations – had the potential ...
In a Guardian article this week, French journalist Jacques Monin came to the conclusion that Britain is obsessed with money, drowning in debt and morally bankrupt. Also this week, as if to supply further evidence for Monsieur Monin, Islington Primary Care Trust voted to sell off Berthold Lubetkin's Grade ...
November 4th 2008
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The Scottish Government's approval yesterday of the Trump Organisation's plans for Menie in Aberdeenshire is unsurprising and shameful. Obviously this is a political decision in the face of compelling environmental, economic and planning reasons for refusing the application. Scotland's politicians, like their counterparts at Westminster are so obsessed (and ...
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. ...