The Role for Development Trusts by Tom Sneddon
A Town Team Member’s Experience by Douglas Currie
Reaching the Hardest to Reach by Laura Carswell
By the Community, For the Community by Daniel McKendry
Governance & Urban Management by Councillor Tony Buchanan
Urban
Renaissance
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The Scottish Renaissance Towns Initiative is about engaging people in the process of rediscovering the value of place. Engagement is essential to the concept of citizenship in the 21st century. We all have different experiences, and views on the way the world works. Successful places facilitate these differences. In this section, we present a series of essays from the perspective of people who have worked through the Scottish Renaissance Towns process. Each essay takes a different point of view. They are written by community members, stakeholders and professionals. They aim to explore how we go about re-creating small town places; places that people want to be, places that work and places that deliver choice.
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Models & Precedents by Professor Alan J Simpson
The Long Game by Pauline Gallacher
Masterplanning - But Not As We Know It by David Chapman
Cultural planning and social capital - the non-physical dynamics of place.
From masterplanning to placeplanning - visions that capture and reflect community aspirations.
The Renaissance Towns model, where it comes from, how it works, and what it could deliver for Scotland.
Discussion.
On the value of the Scottish Renaissance Towns model as a focus for coordinated action.
Governance approaches for succesful urban management
Making the Renaissance Towns process work for the hardest to reach.
The Town Team perspective.
On the role for development trusts in developing locally constituted ways of delivering place futures
