Nicholas Boys Smith

Nicholas Boys Smith is the founding director of Create Streets and the Chair of the Government’s Office for Place. He co-chaired the Building Better Beautiful Commission.

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Housing

A policy that’s popular, sustainable and life-changing? Building beautiful homes

Three years ago – a lifetime away – the Building Better Beautiful Commission, which I co-chaired alongside the late Sir Roger Scruton, presented our findings to a packed audience beside Lambeth Palace. When we had begun our labours 12 months previously, many had asserted that our task was without purpose and our aims without merit. […]

Housing

The joy of shopping

If you want to reach for a ready cliché, complain about the modern world’s ‘consumer culture’, about the prevalence of commercialism, of advertising or shopping centres. But cross your fingers as you do for you will be talking verifiable nonsense. Shopping is as old as cities – which makes it at least fourteen thousand years […]

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