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	<title>nick wright planning</title>
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	<description>planning, community engagement and regeneration</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>la maison du fada, marseille</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/unite-d-habitation.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The lunatic&#8217;s house: that&#8217;s the local name for Le Corbusier&#8217;s famous - or infamous - unité d&#8217;habitation, or cité radieuse, in Marseille&#8217;s suburbs.
Much has been written about this remarkable creation, not least by architects.  If you&#8217;ve not heard of it before, let me explain its significance: built immediately after the end of World War [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "la maison du fada, marseille", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/unite-d-habitation.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>exploring behind the facades</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout this year I&#8217;ve been doing work in Paisley town centre for Renfrewshire Council, with colleagues Ewan Imrie of Collective Architecture, Willie Miller of Willie Miller Urban Design and Alan Edgar of J &#038; E Shepherd surveyors.
The aims of the work have been to research the use and condition of upper floor properties in the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "exploring behind the facades", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/exploring-behind-the-facades.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>revised spp3 on housing</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/revised-spp3-on-housing.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government has just published its new statement on how planners should help meet the government&#8217;s target of 35,000 new homes per year by the middle of the next decade - the revised SPP3 (Scottish Planning Policy 3).
Lots of good material in there, much of which links with other government policy and advice:

The need [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "revised spp3 on housing", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/revised-spp3-on-housing.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>credit crunch = sustainable development ?</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/credit-crunch-sustainable-development.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For years there has been a divergence of thinking amongst built environment professions and the public about how new residential developments should look: suburban style 1970s and 1980s cul-de-sacs based on road layouts designed for cars, or denser walkable neighbourhoods with grid-style street patterns.  
Many planners and urban designers have been arguing for years [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "credit crunch = sustainable development ?", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/credit-crunch-sustainable-development.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Andrés Duany at Holyrood</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/andres-duany-at-holyrood.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[culture change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t wish to sound like a sycophant, but I&#8217;d been waiting a while to hear renowned US architect-planner Andrés Duany in person.  Watching him on youtube and reading about him in The Guardian is okay, but doesn&#8217;t compare to the real thing.
He isn&#8217;t, arguably, the West&#8217;s most famous planner of the moment for [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Andrés Duany at Holyrood", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/andres-duany-at-holyrood.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>shrinking cities</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/shrinking-cities.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The British planning system is designed to manage urban growth, investment and development.  But how well does it perform when our towns and cities are faced with decline, population flight and demolition?
I was a planning student in Glasgow in the 1980s when the debilitating effects of Clydeside&#8217;s industrial restructuring were at their most damaging. [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "shrinking cities", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/shrinking-cities.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Affordable Housing Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/the-scottish-affordable-housing-debate.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I facilitated a seminar for the Royal Town Planning Institute in Glasgow to discuss these thorny issues.  What follows is a summary of the presentations at the start of the evening.  I found them interesting: I hope you do too.
The massive gulf between house prices and average incomes means that housing [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Scottish Affordable Housing Debate", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/the-scottish-affordable-housing-debate.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>brasilitius &#124; a British disease too ?</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/brasilitius.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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Brasilitius: the clinical condition for civil servants living in Brasilia, who have work, home&#8230; and nothing else. &#8216;A beautiful plan, but an abject human failure&#8217;, to quote Professor James C Scott of Yale University at his recent lecture in Glasgow, kindly hosted by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health.
Prof. Scott&#8217;s premise was that large scale [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "brasilitius &#124; a British disease too ?", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/brasilitius.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>building in flexibility</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/building-in-flexibility.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how many projects have built-in obsolescence?  Public realm schemes are a good source of examples, where soon after the redesigned street layout has been built it becomes clear that the design solves some problems but creates others – but it is so “fixed” that it can’t be easily changed in response. [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "building in flexibility", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/building-in-flexibility.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>travel demo towns</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/travel-demo-towns.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government has just announced £15 million to help create a series of &#8217;sustainable travel demonstration communities&#8217; across the country.
Why not follow the example of Bogotá in Colombia, and close the streets every Sunday until 2pm for people?  




Check out the video for the benefits that this could bring&#8230; Sustainable communities, healthy living, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "travel demo towns", url: "http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/travel-demo-towns.htm" });</script>]]></description>
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