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Matthew Carmona


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Matthew Carmona is an architect, planner and researcher based in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the process of design governance and management of Public Space. He has taught at the University of Nottingham and The Bartlett, the latter since 1998.
Carmona serves as the chair of the Place Alliance, a collaborative alliance for place quality that he helped in founding in 2014. He regularly works as an advisor to governments in the UK as well as in other countries. He was the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Built Environment in 2015.
In 2015, Carmona received the RTPI Academic Award for Research Excellence and in 2016 (for the Place Alliance) the RTPI Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement. In 201
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115. Design policy: a long and winding road to clarity

For many years this blog has tracked the twists and turns of national policy on design quality. The recurring theme has been frustration over the persistent inability on the part of Government to set out a clear and confident national ambition for design without over‑complicating it, hedging it with caveats, or introducing contradictions that ultimately undermine its effectiveness.

That frustration

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