Articles
2023
The Telegraph
Building Design
Building Design
Cap X
The Times
Cap X
Conservative Home
Conservative Home
The Telegraph
Readers Digest
23 May
22 May
18 May
3 April
25 March
14 March
3 March
21 February
13 February
20 January
The newest medieval castle you will ever visit
It’s time to liberate our streets by handing back control to local communities
We now have the evidence that proves Jane Jacobs was right – it’s time we started acting on it
A policy that’s popular, sustainable and life-changing? Building beautiful homes
Urban Jungle by Ben Wilson review — rewilding the concrete metropolis
What would Roger Scruton make of 15-minute cities?
Nicholas Boys Smith: Fifteen-minute cities are not a socialist plot
High streets have reinvented themselves before and can do so again
The surprising history of Belgravia, London’s most exclusive postcode
2022
CapX
The Times
Building Design
Conservative Home
Works in Progress
Conservative Home
UnHerd
Inside Housing
Conservative Home
The Telegraph
New Civil Engineer
The Telegraph
Conservative Home
CapX
9 November
6 November
3 November
10 October
7 October
30 September
27 July
12 July
17 May
16 March
15 March
23 February
17 January
5 January
A history of the Old Kent Road: the cheapest street on the Monopoly board
Why do we struggle to densify suburbia?
Scrap this absurd windows regulation that makes rooms darker
Notes on Progress: An Englishman in New York
Some proposals for the new Levelling Up Secretary
Are street votes the only way to intensify our suburbs?
Nicholas Boys Smith: The Levelling Up Bill’s plan for housing and how it can be made to work
A generation has been cut adrift because of unaffordable housing
Computer Says Road: Why we must challenge how we use modelling
Britain deserves more beautiful mews
Why the journey to more homes runs through South Tottenham
South Tottenham’s win-win housing reform is a model worth copying
2021
Unherd
The Telegraph
Unherd
The Telegraph
Unherd
The Telegraph
The Critic
Cap X
Building
UnHerd
RIBA Journal
Conservative Home
Conservative Home
The Telegraph
The Critic
Conservative Home
Conservative Home
30 December
29 December
20 December
11 December
10 December
3 December
1 December
1 November
25 October
6 September
2 September
16 August
27 July
20 July
25 June
24 June
11 March
A glimpse of better housing in South Tottenham
In north London, a radical Victorian approach has solved a very modern crisis
Richard Rogers’ most important work was not his architecture
We can save the Victorian beauty of our traditional high streets
Don’t fret — Notre-Dame can survive a facelift
Empowering residents to design their own streets can help solve the housing crisis
Why don't we care about twentieth century traditional buildings?
Go 'deep green' with gentle density
Gentle density: good for the planet and for our souls
Wooden Homes: Is it time to go back to the future?
What is the new Office for Place? Nicholas Boys Smith explains.
Reviving our mansard tradition
Two years since Johnson promised to level up Britain
People don't want to live in glass canyons
2020
UnHerd
Here & Now
Conservative Home
Neighbourhood Planners
Conservative Home
Conservative Home
The Times
Reaction
CapX
Architects' Journal
The Critic
Conservative Home
The Evening Standard
Conservative Home
UnHerd
Conservative Home
The Telegraph
City Metric
Estates Gazette
Reaction
Conservative Home
The Critic
The European Journal
22 December
21 December
7 December
9 November
13 August
7 August
7 August
6 August
6 August
5 August
10 July
25 May
13 May
11 May
7 May
5 May
1 May
3 March
15 February
30 January
16 January
13 January
10 January
Community engagement in the modern world
Home alone or terraced friendship?
Planning white paper is getting big questions right
Why we need to plan for the future not the past
Reforms offer a chance to build more beautifully
Put retrofit first to help level up the country
Reconnecting health with beauty
Councils should stop micro-managing what high-streets sell
This is a chance for a more cycle-friendly London
My ten point plan for the 'new normal'
To the cafe tables, comrades — bring on the al fresco revolution
Let's allow eating out to mean eating out
Coronavirus is a ticking time-bomb for housing market
The joyful transport revolution
A better, more beautiful planning system
Britain must build better and more beautiful places
We should be housing foxes not housing hedgehogs
2019
The Critic
Here & Now
City Metric
Sivilisasjonen
Unherd
Bright Blue
Unherd
24 Plus News
Conservative Home
ArchNewsNow
City Metric
Reaction
Reaction
Building Design
Estates Gazette
Place North West
The Sunday Times
New London Architecture
Estates Gazette
21 December
Journal No. 14
9 December
21 October
9 October
4 October
3 October
1 October
1 October
22 August
21 August
12 August
6 August
12 July
23 April
18 April
31 March
5 March
17 January
Of streets and squares
Is co-creating beautiful places the one thing we can agree on?
RIBA makes the right decision, for a change
How communities lost their soul
New places and homes can and should be beautiful
New places and homes can and should be beautiful
Beauty and sustainability in architectural education
Has closing Hammersmith Bridge really improved London's air quality?
We should build for the future not for the next few weeks
Why do architects write such nonsense?
Planning reform is not just about money
Creating Beauty - eight steps to popular places
Rochdale's pioneering regeneration
Why do people walk five minutes to sit in some places, and scuttle through others to get there?
2018
Conservative Home
Conservative Home
The RSA
Legatum Institute
Place North West
CapX
Trust for London
Evening Standard
RSA
RICS Land Journal
City Metric
Capx
On London
City Metric
16 January
7 December
17 June
11 June
25 May
1 May
28 Mar
27 Mar
22 Mar
April-May
16 Mar
13 Mar
3 Feb
2 Jan
We should be housing foxes not housing hedgehogs
Why do we build fewer homes proportionally than most other countries?
What Should Planning Look Like In 2030? Planning 3.0 – Call for Evidence
We need to reform our planning system to create the affordable homes the UK needs
Urban revival to urban renaissance
Obsessing over empty homes is no way to solve the housing crisis
A better way of learning the lessons of Grenfell
The rise and fall (and rise?) of communal living
If Britain wants more self-build housing, we need to change its planning system
Grenfell's legacy should be real community control
Six cities. Two nations. Has London peaked? And does it matter?
2017
City Metric
Architects' Journal
i News
Daily Telegraph
RSA Journal
Your MK
Here & Now
City Metric
Thames Estuary P.
Islington Tribune
Conservative Home
Estates Gazette
Future Cities Catapult
Conservative Home
24Housing
16 Oct
6 Oct
5 Oct
4 Oct
Issue 2 2017
15 Sep
Journal No.9
29 June
30 May
19 May
18 May
10 May
7 April
27 Feb
21 Feb
What are the factors that give a place value?
We used big data to predict house prices – and this is what we found
Time to build more houses – and reform the planning system at the same time
If we're going to build more council houses, we should make them beautiful. Here's how
Street Values
What tends to go well when estate regeneration is a success
Heart in the Right Street - beauty, happiness and health in designing the modern city
How do we make our main roads better, bigger and more beautiful?
Proposal For A Series Of Thames Towns to Help Tackle Housing Crisis Kieran Toms
Help us shape a vision for Holloway Road Kieran Toms
Housebuilding needs a direct planning revolution
Can high-rise homes make you ill?
Can you use 'big data' to map great places?
Building with popular consent is the way to reduce planning risk
2016
City Metric
Building
Conservative Home
Estates Gazette
CapX
Conservation Bulletin (p16)
Conservative Home
RSA Blog
City Metric
Building Design
City Metric
15 Dec
6 Dec
18 Aug
13 Aug
17 Mar
16 Mar
26 Feb
26 Feb
16 Feb
21 Jan
12 Jan
London should create its own boulevards Kieran Toms
The community's alternative masterplan for Oval Kieran Toms
Is Neighbourhood Planning flourishing or withering?
Want to build homes? Get local people on board
How we ban the creation of more of the most loved bits of London
London needs to create great streets Jonathan Schifferes
Why does it matter what people think?
So just what should we build? A call for evidence
Estate regeneration can be done well. Here’s how Kieran Toms
2015
24 Housing
Building
Respublica blog
LGA First (p.23)
The Guardian
City Metric
Architects' Journal
Conservative Home
Building
Centre Write
Architects' Journal
Building
Respublica blog
Planning in London
UK Property Forum
Dec
14 Dec
20 Nov
Nov
19 Oct
21 Sep
17 Sep
20 Aug
19 Aug
Jul
17 Jun
20 May
25 Apr
Apr - June
10 Mar
How green is high rise? Professor Philip Steadman
The Direct Planning (Pilot) Bill - Changing the Question
How to get homes built with strong popular support
Estate regeneration: give power to people losing their homes
How to make new homes more popular? Lessons for councillors
Boys Smith: 'Like it or not, the direct planning revolution is coming
A councilllors' guide to secure the housing residents want
The worst building in the world awards
Why can't we build homes people actually want to live in?
How to build better places? James Wildblood
2014
Conservative Home
Conservative Home
Ham & High
Architects' Journal
City AM
City AM
7 Dec
2 Oct
4 Aug
1 May
24 April
21 Jan
The decade when Britain's housing dream turned into a utopia
Mount Pleasant is a test for Boris – can he beat the system?
Why the Swiss Cottage Tower is not the right way for London,
Create streets not towers to solve the housing crisis
A terraced street revolution could end London's housing crunch,
How regenerating failed high rises can gift London extra homes
2013
City AM
Planning
16 Oct
22 Feb