NEW YORK: The three hundred and second entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
We don’t have to build so high, and planning applications needn’t be so embattled, says Nicholas Boys Smith.
Smith is the co-founder of Create Streets (CS), a research institute born out of a realisation that the current “vicious circle” of limited housing supply and high land costs is leading to a built form which is “less popular and people don’t want to live in”.
It advocates for the creation of more and better urban homes with terraced streets of houses and apartments rather than complex multi-storey buildings.
“Only a small minority of people prefer to live in tower blocks,” he says. Research by his social enterprise tells him that most of us, particularly families, prefer buildings “of a more human scale”.
