Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.