Resources
Of Streets and Squares summary: An 8-Step guide to designing popular places
This foldout guide is a summary of our recent publication 'Of Streets and Squares' which you can find in full here. The 8 step guide shows you how to apply our research to create public spaces that are popular and successful.
Healthy Streets for London: Co-design Charrette Processes:
a toolkit for participatory urban planning & placemaking
This toolkit is designed to help local authorities collaborate efficiently and effectively with local residents and other stakeholders to deliver Healthy Streets in line with the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy and the Healthy Streets Approach™. It can also be used to help small organisations, individual designers and practitioners to work with local communities to achieve the same aims of this approach. It is an easy to follow guide equipping anyone with the basic understanding of the Charrette process.
Love thy neighbourhood: the Create Streets guide to creating happy, healthy places
Here is our guide for communities: Love thy neighbourhood: the Create Streets community guide to creating happy, healthy places. This is our how-to guide for communities on how to create more effective Neighbourhood Plans, how to build a case for better streets and how to change your neighbourhood for the better. Also see the BIMBY Toolkit.
How to CREATE Streets
– a councillors’ guide
Many hundreds of councillors from London and beyond now follow us on twitter or are on our rapidly growing mailing list. An increasing number are saying to us 'we agree with what you are saying but what can we do? We feel boxed in by the planning system or by developers claiming that it is only 'viable' to build up and build horrid.'
So here is a short How to CREATE Streets - a councillors' guide guide to getting better homes and places built in your neighbourhoods and, crucially, with your communities. Doing so can make home-building more popular and (ultimately) ease the planning system.
