Does Scotland need an architecture policy?

摘要

YES: Many governments, including that of the UK, have only just started thinking about what an architecture policy might look like. Scotland has just produced its third. Creating Places: A Policy Statement on Architecture and Place for Scotland, launched by culture secretary Fiona Hyslop MSP, is a deal more succinct than its predecessors. To many in architecture and planning, the ideas that Creating Places expounds- developing potential, designing for a low-carbon economy, enriching culture, educational engagement, community empowerment, investment decisions informed by place, quality as a determinant for planning decisions- might seem like so much "motherhood and apple pie".