Create Streets is a design practice, town-builder and think tank. We lead research, master-planning, design coding and community co-design to help develop and steward beautiful and popular ‘gentle density’ places which residents and neighbours can love for generations. For people, prosperity and planet.
“A very interesting organisation”
“You can be sure that if Labour gets in, we’ll be working alongside Create Streets and others to make vision to reality”
“The leadership shown by Nicholas Boys Smith and Create Streets … on this agenda has been invaluable.”
“Create Streets have been fantastic to work with in producing our new standards for street design that puts people and place at its heart”
“Nicholas is the UK’s leading figure in urban living and the beauty of cities.”
“It was excellent to hear Rachel Maclean MP in Parliament highlighting Wychavon and the work that we are doing alongside Create Streets to pioneer high quality urban design at the core of local development”
“I believe your work touches on a vital intersection between (true) sustainability, urban form and beauty and I have benefitted greatly from research you have published.”
“Influential”
“Create Streets are important in the fight for great placemaking”
“When I see Create Streets’ work I see hope”
“Inspiring”
“Thank you Create Streets for inspiring my work to bring about better design. More to come.”
“We absolutely loved your presentation. it was superb and masterfully illustrated, discussed and brilliantly presented!”
“A strong advocate for beauty and design quality to boost support for new homes”
“I applaud the fantastic work of Create Streets.”
“Organisations like Create Streets do fantastic work”
“People want streets.”
“Great in depth work”
“Very influential”
“Everything from Create Streets is interesting.”
“You can’t get more local than that”
“Create Streets set the benchmark for great community involvement – please keep us informed”
“Fully support work of Create Streets”
“A brilliant guide for communities by Create Streets to getting better homes and streets in their neighbourhoods”
“Create Streets speaks London’s language”
“Rather brilliant”
“The influential pressure group, Create Streets“
“Lower-rise and resident-driven are good principles”
“I admire Create Streets”
“All housing architects who take their work seriously should read it”
“I very much enjoyed reading your revolutionary pamphlet”
“A magnificent organisation”
“Create Streets is a vital think tank and social enterprise“
“Another excellent report from Create Streets”
“This is a great example of how big developments should work – working with local communities to design real neighbourhoods that work for the existing community.”
“What you are doing is totally right and, very importantly, right for the time in which we live. You’re there at the beginning of a new wave of thinking”
“Definitely a way forward”
One of “the 50 radical-thinking individuals and organisations changing the UK for the better”
“The campaign for traditional streets is growing”
“A wonderful project and piece of analysis”
“I support Create Streets“
“So glad I found Create Streets! Mini revolution in the making here in Wimbledon“
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A Nesta & Observer 2016 New Radical, one of “50 radical-thinking individuals and organisations changing the UK for the better.”
Winner of INTBAU 2016 Community Engagement Prize.
