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Open space strategies: best practice guidance13 May 2009
Practical guidance to local authorities and their stakeholders on how to prepare, deliver, monitor and review an open space strategy.
This way to better residential streets17 April 2009
A briefing on residential street design aimed at planners, urban designers and highway professionals.
Agreeing a procurement strategy1 April 2009
Briefing outlining how important a long-term procurement strategy is for delivering high quality development.
Selecting design and development partners1 April 2009
Briefing describing how evaluation and selection processes can be structured to deliver successful, well-designed places.
No more toxic assets: fresh thinking on housing quality27 March 2009
Setting out the changes that are needed to avoid more poor-quality housing design when the market eventually recovers.
Skills to grow: seven priorities to improve green space skills24 March 2009
A strategy for addressing the problems and opportunities facing the green space sector, from landscape architects to horticulturalists.
360° magazine - Spring 200910 March 2009
Focuses on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and the opportunities that the programme offers for young people and learning about the built environment.
Hallmarks of a sustainable city5 March 2009
Setting out the practical and policy responses to climate change that are needed to ensure our towns and cities are sustainable places.
Building excellence in the arts: a guide for clients4 March 2009
A step-by-step guide to the procurement process which shares the experiences of arts clients and illustrates with existing arts buildings along the way.
Making the invisible visible: the real value of park assets10 February 2009
Explaining why traditional accounting methods are unhelpful when valuing assets – such as parks – that can appreciate over time.
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