Nicholas Boys Smith | |
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Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Campaigner, Researcher |
Organization | Create Streets |
Movement | New 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]