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Category Archives: Big City Plan
Birmingham Big City Plan – The Video
Given away at the Big City Plan launch yesterday was a lovely little 5 minute video by Squint Opera. I like.
But nobody thought to put this online anywhere, so I asked Kelvin from Urban Initiatives for permission and I’ve ripped it from DVD using HandBrake and uploaded to Viddler for you…
(Yeah – okay, I’m in [...]
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Podcast of The Big City Plan Launch
The Big City Plan launched yesterday and I was there to see (and hear) it happen.
I grabbed a 50 minute recording of all of the speeches, which I’m posting here for your listening pleasure (?).
Speaking:
Clive Dutton – Director of Planning, Birmingham City Council (0:00 – 3:37)
Mike Whitby – Leader of Birmingham City Council (3:37 – [...]
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The Big City Plan Charter – Any Questions?
Today is the launch of The Big City Plan Charter, a document that puts down in writing some of the ‘big ideas’ that are under consideration for the future of Birmingham.
In advance of the launch they’ve put the website online and the Charter document in full for you to download.
The website itself is a triumph [...]
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What is Birmingham’s Creative Direction?
Another in my series about Birmingham’s Big City Plan.
Photo by Pete Ashton
I’ve been working as a designer for a fair few years now and along the way I’ve learnt a few things about the things that make projects successful and, on the flipside, the things that can kill a perfectly good idea. You could break [...]
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Let’s take the ideas in the Big City Plan and run with them