Glasgow is made by us

The Ivan Illich Archive

After the News — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:23:32 +0000

It was Rolf who first put us on to Ivan Illich, but we now find that this great article about Energy and Equity is available online…

Win-Win Solutions

After the News — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:24:51 +0000

This report from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute in Canada makes interesting reading and is as smart a dissection of ‘the way forward is lower emission vehicles’ argument as we’ve come across.

Heaven Knows they’re Miserable Now

After the News — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:00:52 +0000

This article highlights an enlightened plan from the always forward-thinking Glasgow City Council to remove goths and emo (emo’s? emi? what’s the plural?) from Royal Exchange square in the name of ‘economic prosperity’. Issues for discussion: Council screening and dictating who can stay where within the city centre, the primary focus of the city centre being retail and retail alone, tolerance of diversity in the supposedly ‘welcoming city’ (2014 games bid etc etc)…

Redesigning a City, by Wiki

After the News — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:52:44 +0000

This great post on DesignNotes by Michael Surtees looks at a wiki asking how and why people would rebuild their cities.

Arse doesn’t know what elbow is doing.

After the News — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:53:01 +0000

The latest ratcheting of promises and pledges before the Commonwealth Games 2014 have seen the announcement that the games will be car free. Bizarre then, that in the same breath the utterly ‘essential’ nature of the new M74 motorway extension is again reiterated. Perhaps it is essential to carry all the electric buses on?

More here.

Demos | Publications | The Dreaming City

After the News — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:32:18 +0000

We’ve flagged this up before, but perhaps forgot to mention that Glasgow 2020, The Dreaming City is available as a full pdf download and makes very interesting reading. Congratulations, I think, to the authors for attempting to creatively break the imaginative deadlock and negotiate both political inertia and small ‘c’ conservatism, (and big ‘L’ Labour thinking).

Green Inverness

After the News — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:21:09 +0000

AlternativeNess is a feature of European Mobility Week, which is this week incase it was passing you by…

Have a seat.

After the News — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:51:00 +0000

Encouraging people to use Londons green spaces.

Cycling Commuter Survey

After the News — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:15:30 +0000

This Cycling Commuter Survey is being undertaken by Strathclyde University, and is about Cycling and clothing. Are you sweaty when you get to work?

Making the best of a bad job.

After the News — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:30:21 +0000

Glasgow, Bridge to Nowhere highlights a plan to link Waterloo st with the West End. Not sure where you’d find the ‘existing very high quality cycling provision at Glasgow Central’ which the report mentions, or whether this scheme is the ‘panacea for all ills’ it seems to be described as. But good intentions and a good idea in itself.