April 17 2023

Urban Realm kicks off 2023 in campaigning fashion, tackling some of the most contentious issues of the day, beginning with the looming presence of four condemned towers at Wyndford, Maryhill.

Amidst a housing and climate challenge, why are we still demolishing homes? Our focus this spring is our interiors feature as we find out what it takes to create functional and beautiful spaces.

Elsewhere we look at the challenges presented by public-private partnerships (PPP) in the company of Malcolm Fraser. Speaking up when others remain silent the veteran campaigner is taking his message of public sector probity to the corridors of power.

The importance of phenomenology, the philosophy of experience, in master planning provides a rich subtext for Allan Murray to throw meat on the bones of a nebulous concept. Murray calls for an end to the scourge of glass office blocks and a period of reflection on the relationship between society and place.

A similarly philosophical approach is taken by Roger Emmerson in Land of Stone, a broad strokes investigation of Scottish architecture that digs beneath lazy superficialities of style and starchitect to arrive at a deeper understanding of who we are and where we’ve come from.

There’s much to discuss so subscribe today to receive your copy of Urban Realm 53 and get up to speed on all this and more.

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