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Future health: sustainable places for health and well-being
17 November 2009
Explaining how good design makes healthy places by bringing together what CABE knows about sustainable, health-promoting design with the latest thinking about individual health and well-being.
Grey to Green: how we shift funding and skills to green our cities
10 November 2009
Green infrastructure does not receive anything like the investment or management that goes into grey infrastructure.
The green information gap: mapping the nation's green spaces
10 November 2009
There is a major gap in the national information about England’s urban green spaces: nobody knows how many there are, where they are, who owns them or what they are like.
Planning for places: delivering good design through core strategies
5 November 2009
Helping local authorities take a spatial approach to writing their core strategy as part of a local development framework.
Design review: principles and practice
3 November 2009
Design review is a tried and tested method of promoting good design and a cost-effective way of improving quality.
Helping community groups to improve public spaces
26 October 2009
A summary of research by CABE into the main barriers facing community groups in improving public spaces.
Guide to green space apprenticeships
16 October 2009
A good practice guide to help local authorities, landscape contractors and others involved in delivering green space services to plan and manage successful horticulture apprenticeship programmes.
360° magazine: autumn 2009
21 September 2009
Featuring an explanation of the new minimum design standard for Building Schools for the Future, a look at Japan's approach to engaging communities in public space and a poster for students considering how much buildings cost.
Ten year review
16 September 2009
In this review of the last decade, we look back at our work to answer a natural question: what difference have we made?
Homes for our old age: independent living by design
4 September 2009
Featuring 10 case studies of housing schemes for older people, each of which offers inventive design and management solutions linking home and social care.