About

This very often involves:

• work relating street design to issues around accessibility and inclusion
• understanding social and system change
• relating safe-systems approaches to urban street design
• communicating complex ideas in a simple written form
• thinking outside the box, questioning “how things are done around here”, and working carefully and sensitively with those who want to change that .

This website results from my freelance/independent work, but I also work part-time for Living Streets (UK). The articles here express my own personal views, which do not necessarily represent those of Living Streets.

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What’s on this website

What you’ll find here are a set of ideas about how we need streets, towns and cities to work if many more people are going to walk, wheel or cycle – about how to re-balance things, so that we see motor vehicles as tools, that of course are useful for some jobs. And when we stop treating them as gods, to be worshipped and provided for at all costs.

Finding your way around

The home page lists articles in the order  write them, but you might prefer to start with a list of only my most popular articles, or you can read all the articles in an arranged order that makes them quite like the chapters in a book. The menu allows you to filter for other sets of articles too.

Bus stops and continuous footways work

Many know me for a major piece of research on inclusive design that I carried out for Living Streets – focused specifically on continuous footways and bus stops where there is also a cycle track (e.g. a bus stop bypass or floating bus stop). If you’re looking for the final reports from this work, and recordings of introductory webinars on the work, these can be found on the Living Streets website at: www.livingstreets.org.uk/inclusivedesign