Category: Research

It’s time for Britain to become a nation of townbuilders

Posted Create StreetsPosted in Planning, land, and housing policy, Sustainable development

Labour has often repeated its ambitions to build a generation of New Towns to deliver 1.5 million new homes. What might have escaped most people’s attention, however, was what these towns might actually be and look like. After all, there is a big difference between successful historic extensions to cities, such as Edinburgh’s New Town […]

Why Coventry’s ring road needs to go on a diet

Posted createstreets@Posted in Planning, land, and housing policy, Street design, Transport, mobility, walking and cycling

A Coventry public official writes anonymously about the restitched future he would like for his city. I often ask myself, what might have been had Coventry taken a different planning approach after World War II. Where might we be now? How might we reverse some of the twentieth century’s planning decisions? It is a question […]