A central place has one special feature to offer to those who live or work in a city: easy accessibility from immediate surroundings and more distant places. Accessibility may be transformed into visibility and popularity. Therefore, a central place tends to attract more customers and has a greater potential to …
The broad scope of this Analysis Package is to understand the study area by comparing the subjective knowledge of the place coming from the inhabitants and your own experience, with the more objective knowledge coming from systematic map measurements. Hence, the work is split into two distinct work packages: the …
The scope of this Analysis Package is to help you develop a clear, informed, up to date understanding of the study area as it is today in terms of its population, land uses and environmental conditions; at the same time, this analysis aims at understanding what are the ambitions of …
The scope of this Analysis Package is to raise awareness of how the study area has developed in history to date, how that could inform its future development, and make it richer and more significant for the local community and the city as a whole. Becoming familiar with the facts …
It is surprising how often entire projects are carried out without a really in-depth appraisal of what is already in place. This happens in the professional practice, but even more often in academia, where the study of the original urban context is too often disregarded. That tells a lot of …
East (End) Start Within a time-frame of 30 years, this proposal aims to reconnect Carlton within itself as the area has been left fractured by the fall of industry and the scars left from abandoned railways. By reconnecting these fractures Calton will have the framework to flourish and in …
An Integrated Neighbourhood The proposed masterplan for “An Integrated Neighbourhood” is structured in three phases: The first phase of the project will see the construction of the Channel 4 Cultural quarter and the bars. restaurants, and shops to allow this to be a success. This will be followed by …
Calton Masterplan Calton is a significant district, not just in Glasgow but throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. It is a place to come to, what people talk about, where they plan to go and want to be. It bares down as a truly distinctive place with a …
Stitching Over The Rail When walking through Collegelands, pedestrian become the essence of the journey. The whole neighbourhood follows a human scale and becomes a main environmental attraction. A 10-minute walk takes you around the whole area with a smooth accessibility and a strong connectivity, as an extension of …
Breaking Through Boundaries High Street is Glasgow’s ‘other’ city centre. The Mercat Building now inhabits Glasgow Cross Station, with the Union City Rail Line reinstated for domestic use above and the existing Argyle Line below ground. High Street is now accessible locally and nationwide from Aberdeen to London and …
