This piece explores a sample of housing responding to site-specific local conditions such as topography, flooding or micro-climate.
Housing Typologies: Towers, Corners and Markers
A sample of individual buildings with a role in the wider landscape or townscape.
Housing Typologies: Closes, Wynds and Mews
This piece looks at the role of contemporary closes, wynds and mews, re-interpretations of Scottish urban forms.
Local Authority Urban Design Forum 08 – Meeting report, December 2016
Newsletter and outputs from the latest meeting of the Local Authority Urban Design Forum, held in December 2016.
Place Standard: Corporate Working in Shetland
A&DS, together with our Place Standard partners, has been working closely with Shetland Islands council over the past two years.
Place Standard: Arbroath
Working with Place Standard partners A&DS led a workshop at an Angus Managers Forum event.
How Good is Our Place? Place Standard Launched
Place Standard - New tool helps communities assess the quality of places.
DECADE: Housing – I don’t live in a house, I live in a community – Reflections
DECADE: Housing - I don't live in a house, I live in a community - Reflections
Place Challenge 2015 tackles town centre living
Place Challenge 2015 tackles town centre living
Place Challenge 2015: Day 1 Newsletter
A newsletter summarising Day 1 of the Place Challenge 2015