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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI

@andrewhoolachan.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Urban & Regional Planning | Community Councillor | 90s pop culture enthusiast | Occasional Agitator

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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dolly Parton loves Scotland
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Agree, national cringe. Real nations don’t perpetuate their own cliches, they engage in the modern world.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
He likes his pint, his no-nonsense stodge, and his mid-sized English town with its mock Tudor houses. Common sense!
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Scotland is parochial when it comes to any normal urban transport infrastructure. It’s a cultural affliction.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ragin
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Science, Art, Liberty, Law, Commerce and Industry pay tribute to Municipality - just how it should be. 😀
Mural in pediment flanked by two sculptural lions
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This man should be arrested.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Pencil?
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I love a hotel farce.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Before division, Prussia and Saxony were always very rural.
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Don't tolerate the media legitimising thugs who attack people for the colour of their skin. They aren't 'anti-immigration campaigners' like the BBC said this morning, they are violent scumbags. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
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Protesters in Scotland and Belfast ‘scumbags’, says Scottish Greens leader
Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer has described protesters who took to the streets in Scotland and Belfast following the stabbing attack in Northern Ireland as “scumbags”.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Is this still a thing?
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Working on the copyedit of my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. An Injury to All tells the story of how the British working class was pushed from the centre of political life to the margins. It's hitting the shops in October!
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I realise you’re literally on the cover sleeve haha
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Have you read her poetry collection “Cairn”?
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Phillipe Copeland, PhD @ptheeeducator.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Total nonsense.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
With news today that Transport Scotland is considering substantive changes to the M8, in 2022 we held a public conversation at the university and invited practitioners, politicians and the public to contribute their views. You can read the full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Closing the M8 has gone from out there idea to something apparently being considered by policymakers! Well done to @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and everyone else who’s made that happen. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
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Permanent closure of M8 in Glasgow among options for ageing 55-year motorway viaducts
Spans may be repaired or replaced instead at cost of up to £500m
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“Cyclists outnumbering drivers at rush hour on busy Glasgow road, as campaigners hail ‘colossal’ impact of safe cycle lanes.” Keep going, Scotland, keep going
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Cyclists outnumbering drivers at rush hour on busy Glasgow road, as campaigners hail “colossal” impact of safe cycle lanes - Cycling News | Bike Reviews | road.cc
Glasgow – it’s just like Amsterdam. Or at least that’s the opinion of Cycling Scotland, whose latest traffic survey found that cyclists are outnumbering car drivers at rush hour on a busy road in the ...
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is so cringe.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Good blazer game
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I’m so multicultural
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Some of my best friends are Heterosexuals.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Will you be doing a launch in the school Ewan?
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Yup, its all about cultural attitudes and behaviours
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Why do they all have Nazi haircuts?
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Omg finally
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Well done Tom.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Can you give an example?
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Bobby Jewell @bobbyjewell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Was on BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors programme on Saturday talking about the album and rain & sound art. Starts around 00:53minutes >> www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio Scotland - Out of Doors, Corn Buntings, Harmony in Nature and a Festival of Light
Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
- Renaissance to Reformation - cinematic geographies of Southeast Asia - cities, society and space - development geographies - geographies of imperialism and colonialism (St Andrews)
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Taxpayers should not fund any form of religious education. Don’t understand why CofScotland prayers when I was at school was the default position in a modern secular society. If you want to believe in magic fairies and impose arbitrary ethics onto others, do it in the privacy of your own home.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I can’t believe how little people get paid in London year days for third sector and think tank roles that require so much experience. Saw one the other day for £35K. £5K more than I was earning in 2015 in such an environment. Insane.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Yeah but I think times have changed in the last decade. Inequities like this have really gotten worse.
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Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Congrats to our own @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social whose work on ‘Living with Rain’, has been featured in a podcast, by the Thinking Through Infrastructure Network. You can listen to Andrew on the podcast here: soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc... @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
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Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
These London arts and culture jobs are for the children of the asset wealthied of Islington and Hackney, who can live at home.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
*two jags* 🍺🍳
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I’ve been trying to disentangle the energy and creativity of urban policy of the Blair years, from his darker politics for our students. Sadly for most people of a certain age, the better urban polices are drowned out by his foreign policy, PFI initiatives & allowing house prices to run rampant.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I can’t stand it. Bring back sodium.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Their 1990s is our 1960s.
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Better Buses for Strathclyde @betterbusesspt.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Today First Glasgow put single fares up to a whopping £3.25, leaving us with some of the most expensive buses in the UK 💸 How can ScotGov allow this blatantly unfair situation to persist? 😤 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 by supporting SPT’s plans to take our buses back into public control 💷
Unfair Bus Fares 2026
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Twice per annum, good going.
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Is it coming up for a year anniversary of your middle class letter to Markies?
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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
2001: A Space Odyssey has gotten far more relevant again in predicting the rise of AI and the perils of relying on it to survive.
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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"There is now regular talk of civil war in Britain. It is a mark of how low we have sunk. "We scapegoat 'the other' – the outsider, the migrant, the sexual minority – with increasing vitriol and threat." || @neilmackay.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/poli... 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our latest TTiN discussion is also on Spotify, including research by @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and sound art by @bobbyjewell.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2Yex...
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Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New episode of Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast out now, featuring @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and @bobbyjewell.bsky.social on the experience of rain in the wet city of Glasgow and how it calls on us to see (and hear) infrastructure differently on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...
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Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh
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