Listen "What Impacts Our Relationship with The Built Environment? featuring Nicholas Boys Smith & Olga Turner Baker MRICS #182"
Episode Synopsis
The quality of spaces relies strongly on how well they’re designed to serve human experiences, so in this episode of The RICS Podcast we explore the power of placemaking.Olga Turner Baker MRICS (Managing Director, Ekkist) hosts Nicholas Boys Smith (Chair of the Office for Place and Author & Director, Create Streets) whose passion for quality spaces and placemaking makes for a fascinating conversation around good urbanism, new approaches to planning, and the balance between greenbelt and development.This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:What ignited Nicholas’ passion for high quality spaces, and motivated him to make changeWhy the quality of placemaking is at its current standardProjects which demonstrate great placemakingThe biggest urban design challenges and priorities facing the UK government now and going forwardNicholas Boys Smithhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-boys-smith-800614/Olga Turner Baker MRICShttps://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-turner-baker-mrics-well-ap-128b5729/Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors: https://www.rics.org/uk/ RICS Podcast Page https://www.rics.org/podcast/ Kieran Halliwell https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdhalliwell/
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