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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
This guide summarises the potential and limitations of urban planning as a tool for urban management and governance
Masterplanning is integral to creating well-planned and designed garden communities.
This work shows how twitter data might be used to create other types of essential data for urban planning in resource poor environments
Information for local decision makers examining how high streets are used as an asset to improve the overall health of local communities.
CABE was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising government on architecture and urban design. It merged into the Design Council in 2011
An Office for Place event in conjunction with RIBA discussing how government and architects can collaborate to make healthy, sustainable communities, fit for the future.
There are many other guides to urban design and placemaking that provide more detailed guidance on the themes set out within this document to inform local design codes.
Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies, and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme a Visiting Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University a member of council of the Royal...
This section describes guidance for area types that authorities should consider when creating design codes or guides.
The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.
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