October 2011 Blog Posts (6)

Broomielaw application "expected to get the go-ahead"

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Added by new glasgow society on October 31, 2011 at 13:52 — 2 Comments

Pecha Kucha Slides

If you'd like to view the slides from Neil and Tom's Pecha Kucha talk at Tramway on Thursday 13th October 2011, which was (loosely) around the theme of NGS, click here. For readers who don't wish to see the results, click away now.

Added by Neil McGuire on October 27, 2011 at 23:00 — No Comments

Green Concrete

Interesting urban intervention amongst brutal/functional infrastructure, in…

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Added by Neil McGuire on October 25, 2011 at 13:19 — No Comments

Those Questions

As mentioned, there were several questions, via the medium of text message, during our Pecha Kucha talk last week. The answers to these are below. For purpose of making sense of some of this, I was lying down during the talk:

1. Is the society influencing planning in the city?

Yes. NGS has an active interest in planning in Glasgow, and has a seat on the Glasgow Urban Design Panel. We also…

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Added by Neil McGuire on October 19, 2011 at 10:30 — No Comments

Pecha Kucha

Thanks for the interesting (and personal) questions at last nights Pecha Kucha talk at the Tramway. Unfortunately in the panic I missed some good questions so will post responses to all the questions here over the weekend.

Added by Neil McGuire on October 14, 2011 at 7:52 — No Comments

City Visions

There's an interesting exhibition on at the moment at the Lighthouse, called City Visions 1910 / 2010, contrasting urban planning in several cities, across a 100 year divide. There's more information…

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Added by Neil McGuire on October 13, 2011 at 9:10 — No Comments