Willie Miller (urbanist)

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 WMUD in 1996.

[2] Willie Miller worked (see location map of projects) throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Republic of Ireland and the United States (with partner practice Studio Cascade).

Projects undertaken by WMUD under his direction include the production of a Healthy Sustainable Neighbourhoods Model for Glasgow City Council, development guidance for the Energetica 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 Irish Cross Border Area Network (ICBAN) with KPMG and a study of the Crafts Industry in Southern Ireland commissioned by the Crafts Council for Ireland in association with a consortium of LEADER Companies.

[4] Miller was also a member of the Paris-based Association Internationale de Développement Urbain (INTA); he was a member of the INTA Panels for Bordeaux Metropolitan 2010 and Repositioning of the South-West sector of the Lyon Metropolitan Area: Givors-Grigny in January 2013.

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 Jon-Marc Creaney Photography Competition organised by the Glasgow Institute of Architects in 2012.