featured publications
Do we really need traffic lights?
Category: Radio & Television
Ben Hamilton-Baillie interviewed on Fox Business Network via satellite link, on the removal of traffic signals and other expensive items of street clutter. Item No. 2Click here to re-play interview... [MORE]
Review of Hamilton-Baillie Associates and the Ashford scheme
Category: Media Articles
Transport Times publishes an annual review of transport consultants. The 2010 edition features a profile of Hamilton-Baillie Associates, and their work with Whitelaw Turkington and others at Ashford in Kent.Download the pdf here... [MORE]
The Space Between Buildings
Category: Radio & Television
The Space Between Buildings is a 24-minute documentary film by Annabel Slater and Roshan Samarasinghe about the current state of our urban landscape, how it has affected our lives, and how it could change in the future. This film,... [MORE]
Shared Space: Reconciling People, Places and Traffic
Category: Publication
This peer reviewed article, published in Built Environment (Alexandrine Press), details the development of shared space principles, reviews recent developments in mainland europe and in the UK, and considers the wider implications... [MORE]
Towards Shared Space
Category: Publication
This peer-reviewed paper was published in Summer 2008, and outlines the background and principles behind shared space, describing some of the significant examples in the UK and mainland Europe. Special emphasis is given to explori... [MORE]
Challenging Assumptions
Category: Publication
This polemic for Urban Design Quarterly questions some of the familiar features of urban streets and ponders whether the clutter of signs, markings, barriers and signals are really necessary. It concludes with some simple, cost-sa... [MORE]
Crossing the Road in Britain, 1931-1976
Category: Publication
This excellent study of the mundane, but essential, act of crossing the road reads like a social and political history of Britain in the 20th centruy! Where did all those panda, puffin, pelican and pegasus crssings come from, and... [MORE]
Tom Vanderbilt's excellent analysis of driving and driver behaviour
Category: Publication
This is a fascinating and well informed study of recent science and observations about traffic and the psychology of driver behaviour. Readable, witty, and very well researched, this is an excellent study for anyone interested in... [MORE]
Urban Design London Learning Network
Category: Radio & Television
One of a series of lectures on current urban design issues drawn together by Urban Design London, presented by Ben Hamilton-Baillie. Takes a broad look at legislatied and unlegislated behaviour or a regulatory versus a social fram... [MORE]
Pedestrian Guardrails
Category: Publication
The IHT's magazine requested contributions from current practicioners to debate the merits of pedestrian guardrails in urban streets To read the complete article please download the PDF below.... [MORE]
Risk Compensation and the Paradox of Safety
Category: Publication
This excellent book by Warwick Cairns explains the principles of risk compensation and the paradoxes of safety. These paradoxes explain many of the counter-intuitive outcomes of shared space.His chapter on "The Safety of Dang... [MORE]
Rip out the traffic lights and railings
Category: Media Articles
Simon Jenkins argues that drivers negotiating shared space with other street users reduces traffic and road accidents. Explains the key principles of "risk compensation", central to the research of Professor John Adams&n... [MORE]
Obituary - Hans Monderman
Category: Media Articles
The Guardian newspaper's obituary was one among many to recognize the remarkable contribution of Hans Monderman to rethinking long-held assumptions about traffic, safety, civility and the quality of streets and public spaces.D... [MORE]
Signal Failure
Category: Media Articles
Michael Brunton, reporter for TIME magazine, considers the legacy of Hans Monderman to improving streetscapes in Europe. This article follows a series of interviews with Hans Monderman and Ben Hamilton-Baillie shortly before the d... [MORE]
The case against traffic lights
Category: Media Articles
"The case against traffic lights". BBC Newsnight screened a piece by Martin Cassini on Monday 14th January 2008, arguing that traffic lights diminish road safety, increase congestion, add to environmental pollution and d... [MORE]