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Good Foundations: Towards a low carbon, high well-being built environment

Commissioned by the Happold Trust, the Good Foundations report by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) explores how architects, engineers, planners and policymakers can ensure that new development projects work for people and the planet.

So often, creating places and spaces where people can enjoy a good life now and in the future is often abandoned in the face of pursuing short-term financial gains.

In this report, NEF suggest an outline for a way forward that puts people’s lived experience and the limits of the planet’s resources at the heart of the development process.  

Built environment professionals could be making residents and communities a whole lot happier if they knew how to assess, value and deliver the factors that generate a sense of well-being

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