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Professor Brian Evans

A Chartered Town Planner and Chartered Designer, Brian has over 20 years’ experience of strategy development and leading projects in area regeneration, urban design design. He has contributed to projects in the four major Scottish cities as well as in London, Newcastle, Liverpool, Belfast, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Milan, Moscow, St Petersburg and Abu Dhabi.

Brian has extensive experience of legibility and design in the public realm. He played a key role in the seminal urban design studies which launched the public realm programme in Glasgow and Paisley following three years of work on the design coordination of the Glasgow Garden Festival, widely recognised as the nost successful of the British events.

He led Gillespies successful collaboration with the Grainger Town Partnerhsip developing the public realm strategy in 1998/9 and advising on all six stages of its implementation. Brian led the winning team to become Middlesbrough’s startegic urban design partner for the design implementation of public realm improvement in the town centre in association with Gehl Architects of Copenhagen.

Brian is a member of the Yorkshire Foreward Urban Renaissance Panel and a Deputy Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland