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  • Focus on: Evaluations Online

      Evaluations Online is a public portal providing access to a collection of evaluation and economic development research reports commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s main economic development agency. Ensuring that public investment generates economic and social benefits, and long-term inclusive growth ....

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  • Autumn Budget 2017: a wintry economic outlook

    On a chilly morning in Glasgow last Friday, delegates gathered at the University of Strathclyde’s Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow for the Fraser of Allander Institute’s (FAI) post-Budget briefing. Chaired by Alf Young, visiting professor at the International Public ....

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  • A moving story: how Idox’s new office in Glasgow became a piece of history

    In September, the Idox Information Service moved into our new home. Along with our colleagues in the wider Idox Group, we relocated from the Scottish Legal Life Assurance Building in Glasgow’s Bothwell Street to the Grosvenor Building in Gordon Street, ....

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  • Berlin Brandenburg: the airport that failed to take off

    The UK has had its fair share of landmark construction projects that struggled to reach their completion targets and suffered from soaring costs. Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh’s tram network, and the Scottish Parliament are just some examples of major projects affected ....

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  • SURF conference 2017 – What Scotland has learned from 25 years of regeneration

    By Steven McGinty “If regeneration has been so successful, why are there still so many pilots?” This was just one of the many thought-provoking points raised at the Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum’s (SURF) 25th Anniversary Conference, where the very activity ....

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  • Tourism – is it “killing neighbourhoods”?

    By Heather Cameron Today is World Tourism Day (WTD), the aim of which is “to foster awareness among the international community of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic value.”  (United Nations) Commencing on 27 September ....

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  • The rise in youth markets – “transforming town and city centres with the creativity of young people”

    By Heather Cameron As we recently reported, despite being around for centuries, and following a decline during the recession, traditional retail markets have experienced something of a revival in recent years, with a new generation of innovative young traders coming ....

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  • Accelerated development: do Simplified Planning Zones work?

    by Donna Gardiner A simplified planning zone (SPZ) is a designated area where the need to apply for planning permission for certain types of development is removed so long as the development complies with a range of pre-specified conditions. Although ....

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  • Science, technology and innovation: the impact of Brexit

    By Steven McGinty There have been many twists and turns in the Brexit story. The latest, has been Theresa’s May’s failed attempt to increase her parliamentary majority and gain a personal mandate for negotiating her own version of Brexit. However, ....

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  • It’s a kind of magic: how green infrastructure is changing landscapes and lives

    The greatest change happening to the face of our planet is the rapid growth of urban areas. Every ten years, an area the size of Britain is colonised by urban development, and by 2050 two-thirds of the world’s population will ....

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