Meet the commissioners: Nicholas Boys Smith

2023-02-16T07:00:00

Nicholas Boys Smith discusses the need for deep examination of the industry, the importance of the growing focus on sustainability and a passion for the history of our streets

Building magazine is 180 years old this year. What lessons about the built environment should we take from the past?

That if we don’t create beautiful places and buildings with pride, where people want to be and in which it is natural for neighbourhoods to come together then we are creating places which make people sadder and less sociable.

We are also further embedding the deep distrust of developers and planners which we now exhibit as a society, and which makes it so hard politically to create sufficient homes.

Similarly, if we don’t create places and buildings which are worthy and capable of being repurposed in the future then we are building profoundly unsustainably.

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