place making Archives - Page 4 of 20 - Willie Miller Urban Design

A New Industry Park for Dalgety Bay in Fife

4 Jun 2013 | blog, frameworks, place making, working with industry

In December 2012, Fife Council commissioned a consultant team led by yellow book with WMUD, Ryden and Nick Wright Planning to produce a regeneration masterplan for the Hillend & Donibristle Industrial Estate (HADIE). The Council’s brief noted that HADIE, like a...

Grand Lyon and a strategy for the future of Givors

4 Apr 2013 | blog, neighbourhood, place making, small towns, strategy, town centres, working with communities

Cities and their metropolitan areas are at a crossroads – most have ambitions to continue in a growth trajectory and seek to accommodate this either through urban sprawl or by becoming denser. The theory is that more concentrated territories offer more efficiency in…

Towards Healthy Sustainable Neighbourhoods

20 Jan 2013 | blog, cities, education, healthcare, neighbourhood, place making, research, strategy, working with communities

Urban planning has long been associated with people’s health. The origins of British planning lie in the squalid and insanitary conditions that were rife in the rapidly expanding Victorian industrial cities. Mass access to clean water, sewerage, good housing and communal recreation space …

Energetica Corridor: Placemaking Guidance

21 Nov 2012 | blog, neighbourhood, place making, research, strategy

Commissioned by Scottish Enterprise on behalf of the Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum, the purpose of the Energetica Placemaking Guidance is to translate the Energetica Vision of transforming the coastal zone from Aberdeen to Peterhead into a high class...

Haddington Town Centre: a Long Term Vision

12 Jul 2012 | blog, place making, small towns, strategy, town centres, working with communities

The Haddington Town Centre Vision project is a good example of people working together for the good of their town. It is the result of cooperation between four local community groups – Haddington Community Council, Haddington and District Amenity Society, Haddington Business Association …

Biggar – an asset-based approach to community development

25 May 2012 | blog, place making, small towns, town centres, working with communities

This study was commissioned as part of the South Lanarkshire Rural Partnership’s Market Towns Initiative. The team was led by Kevin Murray Associates with WMUD, Nick Wright Planning, Hamilton Baillie Associates and VivID. This Initiative focuses on the four rural market towns of Biggar, Carluke …

Willie Miller, the founder and principal of WMUD, died on 12th January 2021 after a short illness. Willie was a much-loved husband and father and had a huge circle of friends and professional colleagues. He was a multi-talented urban designer whose work had a major impact on hundreds of cities, towns and neighbourhoods throughout the UK and over the past 25 years. He also worked in Ireland, the Channel Islands and the USA.

Ines Triebel has been with WMUD since 2005, and she will continue the practice, drawing on her skills as a planner and designer. Ines has worked on place strategies, masterplans, policy guidance, regeneration and development frameworks, and the design of public realm and streetscape projects. She has extensive experience of working with communities, including charrettes.

WMUD will continue its long-standing strategic partnerships with Benton Scott-Simmons, Nick Wright Planning, Kevin Murray Associates, icecream architecture, yellow book and others. Please direct inquiries to Ines at [email protected] or contact any of the practices named above.