This programme on Richard Holloway’s ‘OneCity’ report on social exclusion is from Justin Russell and Francesca Atkinson’s Cityscape series filmed for Edinburgh Television in 2001. Holloway chaired a Lord Provost’s Commission on Social Exclusion, which presented a bold challenge to …

Architects working in Scotland have in the past complained about the chocolate-box preferences of rural planning departments, favouring a lazy pastiche of one and a half storey stone cottages. Here architect Mark Walker explains his struggle to introduce a different …

A film made in 1999 by the Television Trust for Scotland. Looking away from what architects and planners understand as valuable in buildings this clip identifies the best of Scottish architecture through the eyes and ears of those living with …

Justin Russell and Francesca Atkinson’s Cityscape on Edinburgh’s Architectural Association awards. Comprising interviews with Douglas Reid and winning architect Stephen Boyd of Lee Boyd the clip introduces a language for reading and evaluating architectural form. The winning building for Adobe …

This episode of Cityscape explores the thinking behind Leith Ports Authority’s Ocean Terminal. Terry Frost outline’s the Authority’s objectives and anticipated market for shoppers and visitors while Councillor Steve Cardownie evaluates the employment opportunities and the complimentary shopping the Terminal …

All next week, we’ll be having an architecture special on the website called Building and Landscape. Throughout this series we explore the controversy that often surrounds the reuse of old buildings, and look at what goes into projects that aim to restore …

One of three Science and the City events organised by the Schop Institute with Summerhall. Oliver Chapman introduces Colin Hamilton who explores the sustainable features of the John Hope Gateway Building at the Royal Botanic Gardens.