London Manual

 London Manual Front CoverStreets for All – A London Streetscape Manual – is a guide to the management of London’s streets for all those responsible in any way for their appearance and to show all users how the streets they use could be. The purpose of this guide is to make the streets of London attractive, safe and enjoyable spaces for people. The primary aim is to improve the appearance of London’s streets by showing how practical solutions can be achieved to common highway problems and how good practice can become normal practice. The underlying principles are to reduce clutter, co-ordinate design and reinforce local character.

Unlike Paris, Berlin or New York, London is polynuclear – a collection of urban villages, each with their own distinctive character and sense of place, which developed around the twin cores of the Cities of London and Westminster.  Environmental improvements which are well-designed can help to nurture this local distinctiveness and revitalise local communities.