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Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the Room in the City Conference has been cancelled. The conference blog and forum will remain active for the time being.

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The conference is for anyone interested in the challenge of re-imagining and re-designing dynamic urban spaces for civic engagement, and for all those that wish to place 'the square' back at the heart of civic thinking.

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Conference Update

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the Room in the City Conference has been cancelled. The conference blog and forum will remain active for the time being.See More
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Leigh French commented on Leigh French's blog post 'George Square 'mortgaged' to Barclays Bank'
What does a duck look like... Call for inquiry into company where salaries ballooned and thousands spent on hospitality http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/news/Call-for-inquiry--into.6150282.jp "...John Mason, the SNP MP for Glasgow East,…
Mar 15, 2010

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Conference Update

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the Room in the City Conference has been cancelled. The conference blog and forum will remain active for the time being.

Posted by Neil McGuire on March 24, 2010 at 1:30am

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A Spatial Agency

Spatial Agency is an ongoing research project that aims to shift the of focus of architectural discourse from one that is centred around the design (= building) and making (= technology) of buildings to one where architecture is understood as a situated and embedded praxis conscious of and working with its social, economic and political context. Thanks to tom warren for the link.

Posted by Neil McGuire on March 15, 2010 at 5:48pm

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Parks over Pavement

This post on Brand Avenue, looks at for current alternatives to cover Los Angeles freeways with linear parks. "The Park 101 project has been given the tall order of knitting together what is one of the world’s most jumbled downtown districts." says Architects…
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Posted by Neil McGuire on March 15, 2010 at 1:30pm

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George Square 'mortgaged' to Barclays Bank

"...Glasgow’s principal civic space, George Square, running through the conference as a leitmotiv..."



Glasgow has a new, timely, ALEO (arms length external organisation), City Property (Glasgow) LLP, to which Glasgow City Council will be transferring the rights to the income from hundreds of income-generating properties in exchange for £120m. The titles to the properties will still legally remain the council's in most cases, although a small number have been already marked for… Continue

Posted by Leigh French on March 11, 2010 at 2:32pm — 3 Comments

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