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Articles

  • Place is key to Peace

    15 May 2009
    CABE commissioner Liz Peace, the chief executive of the British Property Federation, says the major lesson from CABE’s first decade is that creating great buildings is not enough in itself – we must create great places.

  • Ian McMillan

    Welcome to a world class place

    13 May 2009
    CABE commissioned Ian McMillan to write Welcome to a world class place, a poem to mark the launch of the government’s strategy for improving quality of place. Ian is poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC.

  • Warrior Princess

    17 April 2009
    Majora Carter is an activist and founder of Sustainable South Bronx, a non-profit environmental justice organisation. She was behind the creation of the first new waterfront park in South Bronx for 60 years, and is a leading promoter of green jobs.

  • San Francisco’s green step forward

    7 April 2009
    Wade Crowfoot, San Francisco’s director of climate protection initiatives, is at the front line of the Californian city’s not-so-quiet climate revolution. We talked to him at the ParkCity green infrastructure conference in London in March 2009.

  • Founding father makes rousing case for turning grey to green

    7 April 2009
    Edward T McMahon, the founding father of the concept of green infrastructure, is a leading conservationist, environmental lawyer and an inspirational public speaker. We talked to him at the ParkCity green infrastructure conference in London in March 2009.

  • Star quality aids Copenhagen’s green revolution

    7 April 2009
    Klaus Bondam, Copenhagen’s mayor of environmental administration, is leading that city’s drive to become provide the world’s best urban environment by 2015. We talked to him at the ParkCity green infrastructure conference in London in March 2009.

  • Ben Page

    Why it pays to ask folk what they want

    17 March 2009
    It’s CABE’s 10th anniversary and we’re asking our commissioners for lessons from the decade. Ipsos Mori’s Ben Page explains why it’s so important to consult people about design.

  • Good design

    Richard Simmons on the the fundamentals of good design

    4 February 2009
    CABE chief executive Richard Simmons sets out why good design matters in this essay supporting the new corporate strategy.

  • Les Sparks

    Les Sparks on retail-led regeneration

    8 December 2008
    Les Sparks, former chair of the CABE-English Heritage Urban Panel, discusses his experiences of how the expert panel has considered the design of shopping centres.

  • View from a balcony of town houses at Accordia, Cambridge

    Building for Life...on the rim of a recession?

    5 November 2008
    Keith Bradley, one of the architects behind Accordia, speaks about the state of the housing market in England at the Building for Life Awards.

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News

Secretary of State champions Engaging Places
20 April 2009
The important role that buildings and places can play in education has been highlighted by the Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Top award for transformed Brighton street
17 April 2009
Brighton has won a special award for its transformation of New Road in the city centre.

First survey of affordable housing design
17 April 2009
CABE and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) have pledged commitment to drive up the design quality of new affordable homes.

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