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The value of design
Promoting the value of design is central to everything that CABE does.
Our work on the value of design includes investigating the economic, social and environmental values relevant to the built environment; showing how good design improves quality of life, equality of opportunity and economic prospects; and exposing the social and economic costs of bad design.
Latest additions
Making the invisible visible: the real value of park assets
Explaining why traditional accounting methods are unhelpful when valuing assets – such as parks – that can appreciate over time.
Value of design at CABE
Valuing urban layout
The iVALUL project shows how the quality of an individual street is directly related to its place in the network of streets that make up a place.
Paved with gold: the real value of street design
Learn how good street design contributes to both economic benefits and public value.
The value handbook
Download our practical guide for public sector organisations to get the most from the buildings and spaces in their area.
The cost of bad design
Hear what people across England had to say about what happens when buildings and spaces go wrong.
Physical capital
Understand the concept of 'physical capital'. What is it? Can it be measured? How can it help to create better places?
Does money grow on trees?
Examining how well-planned and managed parks, gardens and squares can increase the value of nearby properties and attract people and inward investment.
The value of good design
Read how investment in good design generates economic and social value.
The value of urban design
Download our ground-breaking attempt to pin down the economic, social and environmental value of good urban design.
The impact of office design on business performance
See the benefits of well-designed workplaces and how office design can affect business performance.
Value of design on the web
World class places
The Government's strategy for improving quality of place.
From Recession to Recovery
Analysing local effects of recession and the spatial impact of the slowdown.
Space Syntax
Showing how physical and spatial design factors influence urban value.
Centre for Cities
Providing resources to understand urban economic performance.