Brian Evans, Partner

A Chartered Town Planner, Chartered Designer and Partner of Gillespies, Brian Evans has over twenty years' experience of strategy development and leading projects in area regeneration, urban design, urban planning and landscape design. He has contributed to projects in the four major Scottish cities as well as London, Newcastle, Liverpool, Belfast, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Milan. 

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 programmes in Glasgow and Paisley following three years' work on the design coordination of the Glasgow Garden Festival, widely recognised as the most successful of the British events.

As project manager for Glasgow Public Realm Strategy, he led and coordinated the detailed studies into urban form, use and circulation underpinning the widely acclaimed strategy and building lasting relationships with the officers of the public authorities creating a sustainable initiative which continues today.

He led Gillespies successful collaboration with the Grainger Town Partnership 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 strategic 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 Forward Urban Renaissance Panel and a Deputy Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland.

Recent Projects: Aberdeen Urban Realm Strategy, Scunthorpe (Yorkshire)
Current Projects: The Capital Streets Project (Edinburgh), Razdory Masterplan 
Specialisms: Urban Design, Public Realm, Strategy Development


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