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.
Grey to Green: how we shift funding and skills to green our cities provides fresh ideas and evidence, showing how we could design and manage places in radically different ways. It will be of interest to anyone involved in greening the built environment, but above all to the people taking decisions about where to commit public money at a local and a national level.
More Grey to Green
The green information gap: mapping the nation's green spaces calls for a single, shared, information resource – a kind of atlas – to help piece together the different elements of the nation’s green infrastructure. This call is supported by 15 national organisations.Read more about CABE's Grey to Green campaign.
Published on 10 November 2009
Tagged with:Parks and green spaces | Learning and skills | Policy | Public space | Sustainable development
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Drawing on examples and research, Future health shows how good planning can have a positive impact on public health, how health trusts can cut carbon and costs by co-locating services, and how designers can influence people's well-being.
Future health will be of interest to health trusts, planners, policymakers and premises providers.
Health | Health buildings | Sustainable development
Future health
sustainable places for health and well-being
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.
Future health will be of interest to health trusts, planners, policymakers and premises providers.
Published on 17 November 2009
Tagged with:Health | Health buildings | Sustainable development
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Design review: principles and practice explains how design review can support good design through the planning process and how to set up and run a design review panel. Case studies illustrate the breadth of panels now operating and share learning from their experiences.
The publication will help anyone running or wanting to establish a panel, including local authorities and other public bodies. It will also interest architects, planners and clients.
We have also published further details of several aspects of running a design review panel.
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.
Design review: principles and practice
The publication will help anyone running or wanting to establish a panel, including local authorities and other public bodies. It will also interest architects, planners and clients.
Supplementary information
This publication is based on information from a 2008 survey of local and regional design review panels.We have also published further details of several aspects of running a design review panel.
Published on 3 November 2009
Tagged with:Design review
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Throughout the country, gardens, allotments, play areas and other public spaces are being transformed for the better by groups of local residents. These community groups often contribute hundreds of hours of volunteer time and considerable expertise, but sometimes they lack the practical support they need.
This briefing is primarily for local authorities but will be of interest to other public space managers such as housing associations. It recommends ways to support community groups that are working to improve neighbourhood spaces and points to other organisations that can offer additional advice.
Public space
Design review: principles and practice (PDF, 1.84 mb)
Helping community groups to improve public spaces
A summary of research by CABE into the main barriers facing community groups in improving public spaces.
Helping community groups to improve public spaces
This briefing is primarily for local authorities but will be of interest to other public space managers such as housing associations. It recommends ways to support community groups that are working to improve neighbourhood spaces and points to other organisations that can offer additional advice.
Published on 26 October 2009
Tagged with:Public space
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Open space strategies: what local authority decision makers need to know is an eight page introduction to the purpose and benefits of open space strategies. It is aimed at people who are new to the concept of open space strategies.
This leaflet accompanies another CABE Space publication - Open space strategies: best practice guidance - which reflects the latest thinking on the role of open space in improving the quality of people’s lives and features case studies of recent innovation, progress and success from across England.
Planning | Public space
Helping community groups to improve public spaces (PDF, 570.37 kb)
What local authority decision makers need to know
Leaflet explaining to local authority decision makers what an open space strategy is and the tangible benefits of producing one.
This leaflet accompanies another CABE Space publication - Open space strategies: best practice guidance - which reflects the latest thinking on the role of open space in improving the quality of people’s lives and features case studies of recent innovation, progress and success from across England.
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Open space strategies: best practice guidance
Practical guidance to local authorities and their stakeholders on how to prepare, deliver, monitor and review an open space strategy.Published on 13 August 2009
Tagged with:Planning | Public space
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