Nicholas Boys Smith

Nicholas Boys Smith
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Campaigner, Researcher
OrganizationCreate Streets
MovementNew Urbanism

Nicholas John Boys Smith MBE is an English author, researcher and campaigner, best known as the founding Director of Create Streets, an independent research institute that campaigns for gentle density in urban planning, subscribing to ideas of the New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture movements.[1]

Many of Create Streets' ideas are now being embedded in national and local planning policy[2] and Boys Smith has been widely recognised as greatly influential over the UK government's policy in this area,[3] being described as the Conservative's ‘Building Design Tsar’.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Our Story". Create Streets.
  2. ^ Booth, Robert (10 September 2023). "'Tame' wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "Nicholas Boys Smith: 'A bit of controversy forces you to have the conversation'". Building.co.uk. Building.
  4. ^ Booth, Robert (2 January 2024). "England's green belt can't stay entirely untouched for ever, building design tsar says". The Guardian.
  5. ^ "We must build for people, not cars". The Times. 10 March 2024.