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		<title>Future Glasgow &#124; a city vision for the next 50 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glasgow City Council has just launched a public consultation on its City Vision for 2061 &#8211; its vision to shape the city&#8217;s future. This should be big news. It will shape what kind of city Glasgow will be in the future. The City Council may have published the vision, but &#8211; refreshingly &#8211; they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>three steps to better public engagement in planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I was invited to give presentations at a couple of Ministerial events in Edinburgh about community engagement in planning. One was a seminar about how to engage communities in controversial planning issues; the other was a meeting of the Scottish Parliament&#8217;s Cross Party Group on Architecture and the Built Environment which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“You can’t have a totally structured place and then just expect people to fit in&#8230;”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; building new communities that can flourish and become socially successful and sustainable is as important as designing places that are physically, economically and environmentally sustainable. Social sustainability is an issue of public value as well as the wellbeing, quality of life and satisfaction of future residents. It demands a new approach to planning, design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>crianlarich into action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does Crianlarich make you think of? That little place signposted from miles away, only for you to blink and miss it when you get there? Somewhere to dive into the loo on the way to the West Coast, and then get back on the road again? Despite having a population of only 200, Crianlarich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a new plan for Kilmarnock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire&#8217;s principal town, has suffered its share of setbacks. The closure of the Johnnie Walker bottling plant in 2012 will be the latest in a series of high-profile closures over the last 40 years, including Stoddart Carpets, Saxone and Massey-Ferguson. But Diageo&#8217;s departure is also an opportunity to think to the future: to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>from starchitects to localism &#124; a new political dawn</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/from-starchitects-to-localism-a-new-political-dawn.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us are familiar with the idea of starchitects – get Norman Foster to design your Reichstag dome, or Frank Gehry to design you a new Guggenheim museum, and your city will get an economic shot-in-the-arm. The cult of the iconic building is immensely tempting to governments and tourists alike, all around the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>getting the best out of planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year, Seamus Lalor and I have been running a series of 17 seminars for ACSEF in and around Aberdeen. The title of the seminars was Getting the best out of planning. ACSEF commissioned us because they want to improve the efficiency of planning decision-making in the region, and decided that breaking down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>when I say that I&#8217;m a planner&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/when-i-say-that-im-a-planner.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared on the Public Art Scotland website in March 2011, the first in a new occasional series of Thoughts and Responses in which two different specialists are encouraged to explore one issue from their own perspectives. I was asked to discuss some of the big questions that face me in my professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Application Consultation &#124; consult people on design, not the principle</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/consult-people-on-design-not-the-principle.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been co-facilitating a series of workshops in Aberdeen with Seamus Lalor Associates over the last year or so, for ACSEF in Aberdeen city and shire &#8211; as I explained in this earlier post. The workshops are all about building trust and understanding between different players in the planning system &#8211; developers, local authority officers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>delivering better places &#124; the role of leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/delivering-better-places-the-role-of-leadership.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This excellent report deserves to be widely read. Launched by Alex Neil MSP, Minister for Housing and Communities, at the end of January, Delivering Better Places in Scotland: a guide to learning from broader experience was prepared by the University of Glasgow&#8217;s Department of Urban Studies for the Scottish Centre for Regeneration in the Scottish [...]]]></description>
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