CREATESTREETS - Key Persons
Alain de Botton is a philosopher, writer, and television presenter. He co-founded Living Architecture and is an Honorary Fellow of RIBA.
Alessandro Venerandi is a postdoc in Quantitative Urban Geography at University de Cote d'Azur, after completing a Doctorate at UCL.
Alfie Robinson is a heritage and planning consultant. He has a background in art and architectural history
Ben Page is CEO of Ipsos MORI. He has been named one of the "100 most influential people in the public sector" by the Guardian newspaper.
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- Data Science Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute
Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe is a data science researcher at the Alan Turing Institute. She also works as lead data scientist at Popsa.
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- Partner at Calfordseaden LLP
Chris Rainsford is a Partner at calfordseaden LLP. His work as an architect has focused extensively on housing, education and primary health projects.
Coby is a real estate developer who was trained as an urban planner and is focused on creating better, more beautiful communities for all.
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- Constance Is Director of Operations and Also Supports Our Community Engagement Projects. She Previously Worked in the Film Industry
David Taylor is an Engineer specialising in streets and urban places. He is a founding member of the Academy of Urbanism and a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University.
Dr Anna Bornioli is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Public Health at the University of West of England. She is part of the Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing.
Dr Anthony Alexander is a Lecturer in Operations Management at the University of Sussex. He was previously a Research Director at Alan Baxter Associates.
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- Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oxford
Dr David Lewis is an Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oxford.
Dr Rachael Unsworth is an urban geographer interested in the long-term development of cities. She is director of Leeds City Walking Tours.
Ed is a Graduate Urban Designer with an MSc from University College London. He also manages our events programme.
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- Associate Director at Create Streets
Eleanor is Associate Director at Create Streets. She was previously a consultant and holds an MBA from Columbia BS and is pursuing an MSc in Place Leadership.
Flora Neville is a journalist. She is interested in the marginalization of communities and how it can be addressed through better housing and streets.
Hugh founded design studio arced in 2020, responding to UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. He has also worked for Homes England.
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- Architect
- Founder
- Architecture Critic for Building
Ike Ijeh is an architect, founder of London Architecture Walks, architecture critic for Building magazine and BD online and co-author of Architecture Beyond Criticism.
James Armitage is a practising architect involved in urban design and masterplanning. He holds a doctorate in urbanism from the LSE.
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- Head of Business Development at Create Streets
James Ramsay Wildblood is Head of Business Development at Create Streets. He has a Masters at UCL specialising in urbanism and architectural history.
John Parmiter directs Future High Streets, a social enterprise committed to seeing the regeneration of conventional shopping areas.
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- Head of Design at Calfordseaden
John Spence was Partner and Head of Design at Calfordseaden. He is a keen advocate of multi-disciplinary design and BIM.
Jonny Anstead is a Director of TOWN where his focus is on commercial strategy for building street-based developments.
Joseph Jutras founded the Institution of Traditional Architecture in 2014 to compile and share learnings. He organises architecture courses and gives lectures.
Kieran Toms is a Researcher and Urban Designer. He has worked in Copenhagen and for the Borough of Hounslow. He has a Masters in Urban Studies.
Laetitia Lucy is studying for a masters in Global Sustainable Cities at the University of Strathclyde. Her interests lie in socially sustainable development.
Lauren is a Graduate Urban Designer and Project Coordinator.
Maddalena is a Researcher and Urban Designer. She has a PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Urban Morphology & Sustainable Development.
Mark is an architectural technician with interests in detailing, surveying and hand drawing. He also has an MA in urban and regional planning.
Mingfei Ma is an architect and PhD student in urban planning, design and modelling in the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.
Neil Murphy is a Director of TOWN focusing on getting proper urbanism through planning. He was previously economic advisor to Newcastle City Council.
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- Founder & Chairman of Create Streets
Nicholas is the Founder & Chairman of Create Streets. He is also Chair of the Advisory Board for the Government's Office for Place & an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism.
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- Founding Director of Apple Fundraising Consultants
Nicole Gray Conchar is the founding director of Apple Fundraising Consultants and has 20 years of top level fundraising experience in the US and UK.
Nigel Franklin is Managing Partner at calfordseaden. He has over 35 years experience at the forefront of procurement and cost management.
Robert is Senior Architectural Designer and Project Manager. He has an architecture degree from London Met University.
Rose is a housing policy specalist formerly with Shelter and the New Economics Foundation. She co-authored the recent reports for Create Streets Foundation.
Ruaidhri Tulloch works at a Paris-based social housing group. He was commended for restoring Versailles' streetscape in an important rebuilding project.
Russell Horsey is a practicing Chartered Arboriculturist specialising in working with community groups & cities on urban forestry management, public engagement & tree planting.
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- Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
Samuel Hughes is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
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- Development Manager for the Create Streets Foundation
Sarah is a Development Manager for the Create Streets Foundation.
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- Director
- Director of the Urban Design Studies Unit
Sergio Porta is Director of the Urban Design Studies Unit at University of Strathclyde, course director of the MSc in Urban Design in Glasgow and in Naples.
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- Researcher and Consultant at Queensland University of Technology
Sofie Pringle is a PhD researcher and consultant at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
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- Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute
Stephen Law is a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and a senior research fellow in University College London. He previously worked at Space Syntax Limited.
Toby Lloyd was head of policy at Shelter and housing advisor to the Prime Minister.
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- Tom Is Project Manager and Urban Designer and Has an MSc from University College London. He Has Prior Experience in Civil Engineering and Regeneration
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- Chairman of the Bartlett Institute of Real Estate
Yolande Barnes is Chair of the Bartlett Institute of Real Estate at UCL. She writes regularly for research publications and newspapers on property matters.
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- Account Director With Trafalgar Strategy
Zoe is an Account Director with Trafalgar Strategy. Zoe is passionate about creating healthy communities, combining her experience in the housing & healthcare sectors.