02/05/13 12:27 Filed in:
blogThe good news that we were to lose the much hated eyesore that is St Nicholas House, has turned into disappointment at the proposed replacement.
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07/03/13 12:21 Filed in:
blogAfter the sometimes bitter political battles over Aberdeen’s City Garden Project, the initiative by Prof Ferdinand von Prondzynski, principal of the Robert Gordon University, holds out some hope that it could restore a sense of direction for the city.
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25/08/12 12:06 Filed in:
blogI have made no secret of my support for the Aberdeen City Garden Project. I saw it as transformational for the city. Something that our forward-thinking forebears (who boldly built the viaduct that is Union Street to create the modern city we know) would have been proud of.
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28/05/12 09:43 Filed in:
blogI have an old photograph of Aberdeen in the 19th Century, soon after the Granite City gained that title, following the completion of the huge granite viaduct that carries the grandeur of Union Street across the Denburn Valley.
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22/05/12 11:21 Filed in:
blogAlong with a substantial proportion of the local population I am dismayed at the threat to vote out the City Garden proposal for Aberdeen city centre, despite the result of a democratic referendum.
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09/02/12 12:40 Filed in:
blogI only discovered last week that the
City Garden referendum in Aberdeen has much wider implications than simply the decision between retaining the existing Union Terrace Gardens or creating a new
City Garden spanning the Denburn Valley.
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23/11/11 15:42 Filed in:
blogIf I was going to open a shop, I would start out by doing some pretty intensive market research. I would want to know what people want. I would want to know whether there was space in the market for my business.
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