Part of the Planning forward webinar series 'Beauty Strikes Back: The New Fight for Great Places' Join Nicholas Boys Smith from 'Create Streets' (UK), Ruben Hanssen from 'Aesthetic City' (Netherlands), Nadia Everard from 'La Table Ronde' (Belgium), Coby Leftkowitz from 'Backyard' (US) and Milly Main from 'Street Level' (Australia) The hour long session is chaired by Samuel Hughes, Oxford University #planningforward #webinar #beauty #createstreets

Create Communities is a new way to engage with individuals and communities simply, easily and effectively. The Create Communities online platform cuts to the heart of pure citizen engagement by allowing people to have their say on a specific place, good or bad, and to make positive suggestions to improve it. Visit our website: https://www.createstreets.com/create-communities/ Music: "Dreams" by Bensound.com #urbandesign #app #community

Toby Lloyd summarises the launch of the report by No Place Left Behind Commission. #urbandesign #community #levellingup

Urban Hax CIC is a non-profit makerspace established in the Black Country. Its mission is to build a community of makers, tinkerers, innovators and hobbyists who come together to share their knowledge, skills and crafts with other members of the community. This video was created for the launch of the No Place Left Behind Commission report. #urbandesign #community #levellingup https://urbanhax.com/ www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/no-place-left-behind/

In August 2020 the Create Streets Foundation launched No Place Left Behind, the Commission into Prosperity and Community Placemaking. It seeked to identify and develop policy and practice that enables regenerative development in ‘left behind places’. Lawrence Weston is a post-war housing estate on the north west outskirts of Bristol. Ambition Lawrence Weston was established in 2012 by a group of residents who wanted to make the area a better place to live, after a decline in local services. #urbandesign #community #levellingup

This is the audio recording of the launch of the No Place Left Behind Commission report. It was a hybrid event which took place on September 20th in London and also streamed via Zoom. Programme: Welcome from the APPG for Left Behind Neighbourhoods - Paul Howell MP, Co-Chair of the APPG for Left Behind Neighbourhoods Welcome from the Chair - Vidhya Alakeson, Chief Executive, Power to Change Perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in left behind places - Mark Pepper, Development Manager, Ambition Lawrence Weston - Ann Potts, resident, Karbon Homes (joining via Zoom) - Maria Billington, Director, Acts of Random Caring CIC No Place Left Behind Commission: findings and key recommendations - Toby Lloyd, Chair of the Commission Keynote address: - Paul Scully MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Minister for London Panel discussion - Rachel Wolf, Founding Partner, Public First - Jo Gideon MP, MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central - Karin Smyth MP, MP for Bristol South - Cllr Tim Swift, Leader of Calderdale Council (joining via Zoom) We would like to thank Power to Change, Local Trust, Placeshapers, Karbon Homes, Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the New Economics Foundation, the Legatum Institute, the APPG and Living Housing. #urbandesign #community #levellingup www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk

Saman is an architect from Duhok University in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with interest in the rehabilitation, conservation and development of towns and cities that have diverse ethnicities, religions and cultural backgrounds. Recorded for and broadcast during the "Culture in Crisis" webinar run by Create Streets, World Monuments Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on June 1st 2021. #explore #travel #architecture