Social infrastructure signposts

Title: Does school design matter?
Publisher: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Date: September 2010
Resource: Web resource
Description: The quality of school buildings varies widely across Britain. This is not just about their age or setting. It's about the fabric and the layout of the buildings and the grounds. Does this make a difference to the education of the pupils who go there?

Title: Open space strategies
Publisher: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Date: May 2009
Resource: Guidance
Description: Practical guidance on how to prepare, deliver, monitor and review an open space strategy. It reflects the latest thinking on the role of open space in tackling climate change and improving the quality of people's lives and includes best practice examples.

Title: Safer places: the planning system and crime prevention
Publisher: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment with the Home Office and ODPM
Date: 2004
Resource: Good practice guide
Description: Sets out how the planning system is able to deliver well-designed and safe places. It challenges all those involved in the design and layout of new development to think about the most appropriate crime reduction measures without compromising the quality of the local environment.

Title: Designed with care: design and neighbourhood healthcare buildings
Publisher: Commission for Architecture and Built Environment
Date: 2006
Resource: Case study report
Description: Presents 15 case studies of new healthcare buildings that have challenged existing ways of working; responded to the needs of their neighbourhood; created a human and reassuring environment; used space and light to create a calming atmosphere and developed an inclusive design ethos from the outset.

Title: Other people's photographs, Folkestone
Publisher: Strange Cargo
Date: 2007
Resource: Case study
Description: Ambitious and interactive project involved borrowing 1650 photographs from residents representing every street in Folkestone, Kent. A photograph has been reproduced as a permanent sign for each street. Designed to enhance the redevelopment of the town centre and help create a more sustainable community.

Title: Shaping places through sport
Publisher: Sport England
Date: 2008
Resource: Guidance
Description: Five themed guides which aim to show how local authorities and their partners can use sport to build stronger, healthier, sustainable and more prosperous communities. Intended to help policymakers and practitioners put sport at the heart of their broad range of work in local areas.

Title: The culture and sport toolkit
Publisher: Living Places
Date: 2009
Resource: Toolkit
Description: A practical source of information and advice bringing together a combination of existing and new tools to incorporate planning for culture and sport into new and existing developments.