
ALT Thirty years ago this month, Oct'92, architect Howard Liddell, urban planner Drew Mackie & community educators Cathy McCulloch & Colin Morrison & a team of like-minded people created & facilitated the first children’s EcoCity project. Ten-year-olds from Scotland were joined by other ten-year-olds from Germany, Denmark & Norway. Together these children worked with artists, planners, architects & design professionals over the course of a week & they built a 40m.sq. scale model of an environmentally-friendly city of the future. It was awe inspiring. At the end of one of the build days children had put a representation of a new building in the centre of their urban landscape. Reporting back about their decisions the children said it was a Children’s Parliament, an important place that adults would come to; where adults would have to listen to children. They told us that the word parliament came from a French word parler; meaning to talk or to speak.
































