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CABE annual report 2009/10: annual report and accounts19 July 2010
Covering our performance in areas including housing, education, public space and sustainability. CABE met or exceeded every one of its targets last year.
Getting the big picture right: a guide to large scale urban design9 July 2010
How do we deal with economic, social and environmental challenges that affect the lives of people over large areas and cannot be solved through local action?
Councillor’s guide to good design6 July 2010
Advice and ideas for securing better-designed buildings and spaces, including key design principles and inspiring local examples for leaders, executive and committee members and ward councillors.
Community green: using local spaces to tackle inequality and improve health6 July 2010
Investigating the relationship between urban green space, inequality, ethnicity, health and wellbeing in the largest study of its kind in England.
Decent homes need decent spaces6 July 2010
An action plan to improve the quality of open spaces within social housing areas, prepared by CABE and the National Housing Federation in partnership with Neighbourhoods Green and over 30 social landlords.
Improving the design of new housing: what role for standards?15 June 2010
Setting out CABE's emerging position on housing standards.
Simpler and better: housing design in everyone's interest8 June 2010
Is it too much to believe that all new homes can be good enough everywhere? Why has this proved so difficult in the past and what can we do to change it?
360° magazine: summer 20107 June 2010
Featuring reports on how teaching through the local area improves behaviour and communities learning to cross old divides in Northern Ireland as well as posters about being a chartered architectural technologist and Open in Norwich.
Housing standards: evidence and research27 May 2010
2010 will be a pivotal year for housing standards. We know from our work around the country that many local authorities are looking at setting their own standards for their local area.
Ordinary places29 March 2010
A starting point for debate about creating the culture and conditions to help ordinary places to become valued and valuable.
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Popular publications
Design and access statements: how to write read and use them
Practical advice on getting the best from statements to help deliver well-designed, inclusive places.
Urban green nation: building the evidence base
No one knows exactly how many green spaces there are in our urban areas, where they are, who owns them or what condition they are in.
Grey to Green: How we shift funding and skills to green our cities
Green infrastructure does not receive anything like the investment or management that goes into grey infrastructure.
Design review: principles and practice
Design review is a tried and tested method of promoting good design and a cost-effective way of improving quality.
Simpler and better: housing design in everyone's interest
Is it too much to believe that all new homes can be good enough everywhere? Why has this proved so difficult in the past and what can we do to change it?