Draft:Create Streets
| Founder | Nicholas Boys Smith |
|---|---|
| Type | Social enterprise |
| Location |
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Key people | David Milner (director) |
| Website | www |
Create Streets is a British urban planning and architecture social enterprise and research institute headquartered in Lambeth, South London that advocates for gentle density as a means of solving the housing crisis.
Many of Create Streets’ ideas are now being embedded in national and local planning policy[1] and the organisation, along with its founder Nicholas Boys Smith, has been widely recognised as greatly influential over the UK government's policy in this area.[2][3][4]
History
[edit]Nicholas Boys Smith set up Create Streets in 2012 ‘out of frustration with the low quality of too much recent development and of irrational decision-making.’[5] The ‘public genesis’ of the organisation came through a 2013 report authored by Boys Smith and Alex Morton, titled ‘Create Streets’, co-published with Policy Exchange.[6]
Focus Areas
[edit]Notable projects
[edit]Mount Pleasant
[edit]Britain Remade
Create Streets Foundation
[edit]Awards
[edit]- Nesta & The 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.
Major Publications
[edit]- "Create Streets" (PDF). (2013, With Policy Exchange - Nicholas Boys Smith & Alex Morton)
References
[edit]- ^ "'Tame' wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank". The Guardian. The Guardian.
- ^ "Nicholas Boys Smith: 'A bit of controversy forces you to have the conversation'". Building.co.uk. Building.
- ^ "England's green belt can't stay entirely untouched for ever, building design tsar says". The Guardian. The Guardian.
- ^ "We must build for people, not cars". The Times. The Times.
- ^ "Our Story". Create Streets. Create Streets.
- ^ "Should London embrace the vision of Create Streets?". The Guardian. The Guardian.
Category:Interested parties in planning in England Category:New Classical architecture Category:New Urbanism Category:Organisations based in the London Borough of Lambeth Category:Public policy think tanks based in the United Kingdom Category:Social enterprises Category:Think tanks based in England