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50 years of planning staff reunion
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Laughter and happy memories were the order of the day in Town and Regional Planning when current and former staff met to celebrate 50 years of planning at Dundee. The buffet lunch, held in the University Tower, was the final event of a very busy year of celebrations. Colleagues from each of the past five decades shared their stories of planning, aided by a wonderful display of photographs taken over a thirty year period by the late Dave Gourlay, who is sadly missed by us all. Thanks to Anne Thomas Cumming for the delicious birthday cake. The party was not just about the past however...
Architectural History in Practice
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Tuesday 27 May 6 – 8pm A Planning Aid Scotland event in conjunction with 50 years of planning education at Dundee Tom Parnell, Architectural Historian with Simpson & Brown (a conservation architecture practice), will talk about how he helps inform architects and clients in developing designs and supporting planning applications. This visually-based presentation will look at the tools available for research into the historic built environment; discuss case-studies and the documents produced (such as conservation plans and statements); and examine what can/should be expected of applications re...
Architectural History in Practice
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Tuesday 27 May 6 – 8pm A Planning Aid Scotland event in conjunction with 50 years of planning education at Dundee Tom Parnell, Architectural Historian with Simpson & Brown (a conservation architecture practice), will talk about how he helps inform architects and clients in developing designs and supporting planning applications. This visually-based presentation will look at the tools available for research into the historic built environment; discuss case-studies and the documents produced (such as conservation plans and statements); and examine what can/should be expected of applications re...
Attention Journal No. 1
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Attention is Princeton’s Audio Journal for Architecture. It offers concentrated and curated discursive content about architecture in a format geared to a new kind of audience; today's distracted multi-tasking digital natives. At a time when habits of attention are evolving rapidly, and we are more likely to listen to a podcast while on the move or while working late at night than we are to sit down for a day to read a book or a traditional print journal from cover to cover, Attention deploys the affect of the spoken word in interviews and debates, to focus the ...