Willie Miller (urbanist)


Willie Miller is a designer and urbanist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is Principal of Willie Miller Urban Design, a design practice based in the West End of Glasgow. Miller studied at Glasgow School of Art, then at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and The Built Environment in Aberdeen, and was Assistant Director of Planning at Monklands District Council, prior to establishing in 1996.

Career

Willie Miller has worked throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Republic of Ireland and the United States. Recent projects undertaken by WMUD under his direction include the production of a Healthy Sustainable Neighbourhoods Model for Glasgow City Council, for the project in Aberdeenshire, a cultural study of Derry City Walls, tourism studies of Moyle and County Leitrim in the Republic of Ireland, the spatial aspects of the Regional Strategic Framework for the with KPMG and a study of the commissioned by the in association with a consortium of . These projects suggest a move towards strategic design, though the practice maintains a core of strategic urbanism work through recent projects including a new for Dumbarton, a for Leven town centre in Fife and of Strathaven.
Willie Miller promotes a collaborative and contextual approach to urban design - working across disciplines, in liaison with local communities, businesses and organisational stakeholders, and respecting local context and heritage.

Community work

As well as being a practising urbanist, Miller is also a commentator on urban design issues, a member of the editorial board of Urban Realm magazine, and is involved with urban design education at the University of Strathclyde's and the University of Glasgow's . He is a member of the Architectural Association. Miller is also a member of the Paris-based ; he was a member of the INTA Panels for and in January 2013. He has written for , and Urban Realm magazine, and has lectured on at Wayne State University, Detroit.
He is also Director of , a digital agency based in the West End of Glasgow which creates web presence, graphics and photography for small businesses and public agencies. He talked about his photography at the Edinburgh Pecha Kucha held during the Edinburgh Festival in August 2012 and won a commendation for his work in the organised by the in 2012.