RTPI | Policy and Research

Key information about the work of the Policy, Practice, Research & International Team at the Royal Town Planning Institute.

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SERVICE: The Place Standard Tool - How Good is Our Place? - A&DS

Sep 27 2020

The Place Standard tool provides a simple framework to structure conversations about place. Use it too see what works, and what could improve in your place.

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RTPI | New from the RTPI

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Housing Typologies: Edge - A&DS

Sep 27 2020

This piece explores a sample of housing forming edges to parks, public open space and the wider landscape. This fourth of seven in our typologies series explores buildings at the edge in Scottish urban and rural landscapes. Illustrated by mapping,

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Housing Typologies: Adaptables - A&DS

Sep 27 2020

This piece explores a sample of housing with more than one face and use. With current policy seeking adaptability in the design of new housing we look at examples allowing potential for the home to accommodate change and different uses in a number

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Co-producing quality places: Learning for the Place Standard - A&DS

Sep 27 2020

Community empowerment sits at the heart of the Scottish approach to making places work. Changing places with people is about sharing a sense of the issues and ambitions, supported by examples of the art of the possible. As part of the process of

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Case Study: Place Standard in Planning - Local Authority scale - A&DS

Sep 27 2020

A&DS has developed a series of Case Studies to illustrate how the Place Standard tool has been used within the planning process.

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