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Value of design: diversity is the key
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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Place Forum 4: Preventative design
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Redesigning cities: learning from Barcelona’s Superblocks
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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Design: The key to creating healthier, happier places
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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Value of Design
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Campaign launched to champion the Value of Design
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How to design places that prevent problems
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2024
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How architecture and design can make a positive impact on mental health
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The Recap: A weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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The Recap: a weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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Designing cities that work for women: key takeaways from a Perth workshop
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A place-based approach to Town Centre Living
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The Recap: a weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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A new home for Architecture and Design Scotland
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Learning from the Climate Action Towns at the Gathering event and resource launch
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The Recap: a weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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The Recap: a weekly update from Architecture and Design Scotland
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Key trends that mean we need to use our town centres differently - event
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Roadshow series highlights huge potential for communities across the country
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How Scottish towns can work together to tackle the climate emergency
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How we can tackle biodiversity loss
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What is a blue-green infrastructure?
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Lessons learned from the Key Agencies Group Shared Learning Event
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Roadshow to help unlock potential of town centre living in Scotland
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New Architecture and Design Scotland report reflects on the importance of design to create thriving places in Scotland
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Gathering online to share examples of climate action
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Winners announced for the 2023 A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture
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Place Forum 3: Thinking big, thinking beyond
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Learning Places Scotland conference
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Our plan: we want to hear from you
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International keynote speaker announced for Place Forum: Thinking big, Thinking beyond
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Helping planning authorities to navigate new planning guidance
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How school grounds can tackle the climate emergency
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Place Forum - making connections
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Creating greenspace and biodiversity
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Community resilience and the climate emergency
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Scotland's climate week 2023
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A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2023
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The benefits of community engagement in architecture and planning
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A place-based collaborative approach to Fife’s Local Development Plan
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Sharing examples of climate action in Scotland
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25th Anniversary SURF Awards launched
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Adapting places to tackle the climate emergency
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Climate, community and collaboration: Scotland in Venice
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The Gathering: bringing together the Climate Action Towns
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Place Standard Tool: Norwegian colleagues visit to Scotland
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Local Authorities chosen for new Key Agencies Group support offer revealed
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News: Climate Action Towns Gathering
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Designing for people's lives
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A Fragile Correspondence – Scotland + Venice
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Supporting planning authorities with Local Development Plans
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Conversations in Stevenston about adapting to climate risk
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Using the Young Scot National Entitlement Card to support young people experiencing poverty
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Better off in work
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Child poverty place-based initiatives in the Scottish Government
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Co-benefits of climate mitigation and community empowerment
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Supporting young people living in poverty to access bikes through their schools
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Addressing crisis through child-friendly environments
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Town centre living: more homes at the heart of great places report
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The Winter Gathering in Campbeltown
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Town centre living: Primrose Street, Alloa
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Alva Pathfinder Project: reflections one year on
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Reflections and projections – Scotland’s design agency celebrates achievements
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Climate ready Annan
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Collaborating with Capability Scotland to reimagine flagship specialist care
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LAUDF16: Collaborative approaches to 20-minute neighbourhoods
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The 2022 SURF Awards for best practice in community regeneration
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Reflections on the sustainable estate
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A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2022: interviews
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Five lessons from our recent Climate Action Towns gathering
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Two new towns join Climate Action Towns Project
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Making places for outdoor learning
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Heather Claridge appointed Director of Design
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NHS Assure Design Excellence Awards: Winners and shortlisted projects
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A&DS and RIAS Student Awards for Architecture 2022
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Student awards 2022: the winners have been announced
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A&DS and RIAS Student Awards for architecture 2022 - shortlist
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Five takeaways from RTPI Scotland’s annual conference in Aberdeen
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How we work to tackle the climate emergency
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Delivering community climate action plans in Scotland
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Shaping places for wellbeing
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How Scotland’s towns and villages can help tackle the climate emergency
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How can schools help tackle climate change?
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Knowledge exchange on 20-minute neighbourhoods
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What is a 20-minute neighbourhood?
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Reflections on ‘A river runs through it’ report
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Climate Action Towns funded for a second year
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A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2022
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Five lessons learned from taking climate action at a local level
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Green recovery: a cross-agency approach
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Reflections from year one of the Climate Action Towns project
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Rural futures
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Design for the Future competition – Western Isles winners
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What if…?/ Scotland: Shared hopes, dreams and wishes for our places
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Design for planet: time for design to shine
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Seven Scottish ‘climate action towns’ to help just transition
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Scotland can inspire the world as COP comes to Glasgow
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Student awards 2021: interview with Gergana Negovanska
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Student awards 2021: interview with Tiia Partanen
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Student awards 2021: interview with Rachel Dunne
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The results for A&DS and RIAS Student Awards for Architecture 2021
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Can we re-use our way to net zero?
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Shortlist for the A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2021
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An Cala: Best Use of Timber Awards Winning Project 2021
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The future will be local
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Carbon conscious places are people places
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Scotland’s towns and the climate emergency
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Getting our towns climate-ready with blue and green infrastructure
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Glasgow City Region: choosing to flourish in our future climate
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If you’re not part of the solution… how the public sector can deliver better places
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Designing a lower carbon Scotland
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Learning from Midsteeple Quarter, Dumfries
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What is a whole-place collaborative approach and why does it matter?
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The end of the high street, or a step in its evolution?
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How has the pandemic changed the way we look at our places?
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What is a place and why does it matter?
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Corporate Plan 2021-31 launched
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Creating uplifting interiors for Glasgow Film Theatre
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Introducing a place-based approach to housing
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Student Awards 2020: our winners look to the future
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Design in a changing climate: new report launched
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Repurposing and sustainable placemaking
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Building resilience in a crisis
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The value of vacant and derelict land
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Architecture education must respond to the climate crisis
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What is the role for community based urban food production?
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Greening the grey: lessons from Melbourne
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World’s most co-ordinated distillery: Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience
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A new room in the city: Glasgow Film Theatre
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Low carbon living: designing 22 Observatory Road
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New Steading: a magical little building in a glorious spot
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Best Use of Timber Awards 2019 exhibition
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Housing to 2040 voices: the client’s experience | Dunbeg
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Housing to 2040 voices: the resident’s experience | Paisley
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Housing to 2040 voices: the architect’s experience | Dunbeg
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Housing to 2040 voices: the community contact’s experience | Dunbeg
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Housing to 2040 voices: the architect’s experience | Paisley
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Shared mobility and quality living
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Hedonistic urbanism: translating self-interest to social good
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Planning for the transformation of energy
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A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2019 – The Results
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A caring place: Toyama as a city to suit its citizens
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Stockholm’s garden of the senses
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Cycling without age: part two
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Promoting independent living at Blackwood Homes
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Repurposing Norton Park
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A caring place: digital connections
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Housing choice
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Cycling without age: part one
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Seven thoughts on the circular economy
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We need to talk about toilets!
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Can urban living be suitable for older people?
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Making public places better for everyone
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Good accessible design is good for everyone
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Walkable and caring town centres
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Andy MacMillan Memorial Lecture 2018 – Sarah Castle, Director, IF_DO
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Venetians adopt Happenstance as their own free space
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A caring place: presentation at Cross Party Group
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Regeneration with care in mind
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The joy of having a project
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How can we use design to help create a caring place?
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The Happenstance: freeing people to think about free space
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Could a ‘caring town’ housing concept transform our age?
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DIY smart living: creating a caring place
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Re-imagining age and home
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Why can't we live in town centres again?
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Six ways to reduce our emissions in Scotland
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From eyesores to empowered spaces: getting Stalled Spaces off the ground
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Place Standard: housing in Shetland
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Place Standard: testing the tool in Irvine
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Place Standard: corporate working in Shetland
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Place Standard: Arbroath
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Place Standard: discussing growth in South Queensferry
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Place Standard: Carnegie – three communities test the Place Standard Tool
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Scottish Scenic Routes initiative
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Sir Harry Burns lecture on wellness
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Dementia-friendly design: what is it and why is it important?
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