Higher standards of urban design depend on everyone who makes or influences decisions about development having greater capacity to contribute, through their understanding, knowledge and abilities.
We need to raise standards through training, education and learning on the job for councillors, design champions, communities, clients and a wide range of professionals. Capacitycheck is a method of
... [Show full abstract] assessing what capacity individuals and organisations have, and drawing up plans to increase it.
Capacitycheck can help professionals to free themselves from their silos; politicians to become effective champions of design; communities to be empowered; landowners and developers to discover the value of making places; and students to learn how to work in an urban context.