St Helier’s character
This [tag]animation[/tag] of the [tag]historical development[/tag] of the ...
WMUD
conceptual, strategic and development work in urban design, town making, city planning, urbanism and place-making
Ardrishaig Masterplan
In association with lead consultant Roger Tym and Partners, we have been commissioned by Argyll and Bute Council to produce a Regeneration Masterplan which will provide a framework for the future development of Ardrishaig, highlighting the relationship of key projects to the objectives of the masterplan partners, other key stakeholders ...
Grange over Sands Regeneration
We have been commissioned by South Lakeland District Council to produce a regeneration strategy for this striking resort town. The overall aim of the work is to improve Grange over Sands as a key service centre and to increase its attractiveness to the local community and to visitors. ...
Dawlish Town Centre Masterplan
We have been commissioned by Dawlish Community Trust along with lead consultants yellow book to prepare a town centre masterplan for this attractive Devon resort town. Dawlish enjoys a remarkable and memorable setting, facing south to the sea and surrounded by a rich rural landscape. The town itself, though somewhat ...
Sheffield Waterways Regeneration Strategy
Together with lead consultants yellow book, we have been commissioned by Sheffield City Council to prepare a strategy for the city's waterways. The strategy will offer a compelling vision of the city of rivers. It will be an integrated strategy, linked to the wider policy agenda with a ...
Campbeltown and Kintyre Strategy
This study is being commissioned jointly by Argyll and Bute Council (ABC), Argyll and Islands Enterprise (AIE) and Communities Scotland (CS). The strategy and action plan will aid, guide and inform the management, promotion, regeneration, revitalisation and redevelopment of Campbeltown town centre. We are pleased to be working with the ...
A banana republic welcomes Trump
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 ...
Lewis Mumford on the city
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. ...
Signs and the city
The Spring 2008 edition of JoLA, the excellent peer-reviewed academic Journal of Landscape Architecture established by the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, contains an article on the work of Gregor Graf which raises the question, "How do we read a city without signs?". With a mixture of purist ...
Network mapping
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 ...
December 27th 2007
Tags: cities, comment, communities, neighbourhood, place making, strategy 9 Comments
Tags: cities, comment, communities, neighbourhood, place making, strategy 9 Comments
Remarkable Rieselfeld
Much has been written in recent weeks about Rieselfeld and Vauban, both extensions of Freiburg in Breisgau in south west Germany. These areas have been under construction since the 1990s but the current interest in them from a UK perspective comes from the Government's plans to build a number ...
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