About us
About this website
This website cuts through the complexities of the climate change debate to provide expert advice, offer clear priorities for action and describe good practice in sustainable urban design and management.
It supports the people whose job is to make decisions about how to plan, design and manage towns and cities.
Every town and city needs to be managed as a complex system. Key themes, like energy and waste, need to be addressed at the right scale. The website provides tailored, expert advice arranged around seven spatial scales, from individual building to regional. It systematically links these scales with six critical sustainability themes – energy, waste, water, transport, green infrastructure and public space. This allows you to see, for instance, how low-carbon and renewable energy technologies or transport will work across a neighbourhood.
Success requires integrated thinking across silos – and the website is designed to help you achieve this. A cross-cutting approach should underpin decisions about where new homes, schools, healthcare, shops and employment should be located, and how regeneration should be planned and implemented.
The website also offers an invaluable knowledge base of examples of good practice from around the world, to help decide the right approach for your city, town, neighbourhood or site. One size never fits all when it comes to the built environment. But you can learn fast from the experience of others.
Partners
This website has been created as a central part of CABE’s sustainable cities programme.
CABE is the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. As the government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space, CABE is helping cities and towns to become more sustainable places.
In creating the website, we have worked with core cities of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield.
We have also drawn on the advice of 30 of the UK’s foremost built environment and sustainability experts. We have also worked closely with England’s eight core cities, because their experience of regeneration helps us to understand what makes places more sustainable, and more resilient to climate change.
CABE has developed this website with Urban Practitioners, a specialist urban planning and urban regeneration consultancy.
We are grateful to the sponsors who have helped develop the programme to date.
