Create Streets Associate Director, Eleanor Broad, reports back from 48 hours on the Garonne Last week, I spent 48 hours in Bordeaux. I met with Mayor Pierre Hurmic and his deputy, Didier Jeanjean — the elected official leading on creating calmer, more people-friendly streets (ville apaisée) and on greening the city (végétalisation) — along with […]
In the run up to the general election, I had a chance conversation with a branch manager at one of the UK’s main housebuilders. I asked him which party he thought would deliver more homes; the response came in the form of a laugh. He said it really didn’t matter how many more homes each […]
Report from our event at Labour Conference: New Towns. Old Challenges. How do we create new places which are popular and durable, viable and fair? ‘Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by […]
Nicholas Boys Smith summarises some high level points for creating and stewarding prosperous and sustainable places into the future I was recently invited by my good friend Carlos Moreno to talk about sustainable cities at a conference (the Redefining the Future Conference) in a rather sultry summer Athens. No slides. Only a few minutes. Not […]
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 […]