About time too: Improving quality of life through design

By Selina Mason2019-12-16T06:00:00

Masterplanning is distinguished by a special dimension – and that’s time. Good placemaking can make our lives more efficient, especially for women

In coming to the end of the year, I find myself looking back on the themes I’ve explored in this column over 2019: loneliness in the city, liveability, the value of urban messiness, the role of landscape and inequality. In all of them I have talked about how masterplanning a place is not about plots, buildings and boundaries; instead, it is about designing a place to consciously create positive benefit for those who live and work there. And the fact is, once delivered, the bones of a masterplan will be there for a long time, so there is nothing more important than planning carefully and recognising the potential range of impacts.

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