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The infrastructure to support vibrant and viable places, including transport, utilities, energy and community facilities including education, retail, leisure & recreation.
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Advice: Greening junctions and roads
Greening junctions and roads can be part of active travel strategies to encourage greater walking and cycling, writes Ben Kochan.
Advice: Promoting the 15-minute neighbourhood
Identifying attractive walking and cycling routes needs to be at the centre of strategies to promote the 15-minute neighbourhood, finds Ben Kochan.
Opinion: Design for healthy and climate-friendly mobility
COVID response measures have highlighted the difficulties in moving to healthier and more sustainable forms of travel and placemakers need to be assertive to enable change, writes Chris Brown.
Advice: Providing parking in new housing development
With declining car ownership and the possible introduction of autonomous vehicles, parking needs to be designed so space can be adapted for other uses when it is no longer needed, finds Ben Kochan.
Opinion: Now is the time to redefine our regions
The Budget's fast, local money and backing for transport infrastructure will aid recovery in the West Midlands, and the region now needs to build back stronger, writes Simon Marks.
Advice: Providing for children's play
Children do not require any special play provision, but streets and other places need to be made welcoming and safe from cars, finds Ben Kochan.
Case study: Delivering community value alongside homes
Social infrastructure has been embedded in east London's Royal Wharf in a strategy to transform a former industrial site into a sustainable neighbourhood, Josephine Smit finds.
Advice: Providing sustainably for online shopping deliveries
Through the pandemic, the need to provide regional and local distribution sites for online shopping deliveries has become even more pressing, finds Ben Kochan.
Opinion: The importance of defining levelling up
Levelling up is a good thing and the Treasury now needs to define it, as a new report highlights, writes Tim Williams.
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