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Capacitycheck focuses on the skills needed to make successful places.

Urban design manages the complexity of places, creating frameworks for change. Specialised urban design skills may not fit into neat professional categories. The range of skills is wider than any single individual is likely to possess, and a different combination of skills will be required for different projects.

Higher standards of urban design depend on everyone who makes or influences decisions about development (including councillors, design champions, clients and a wide range of professionals) having better understanding, knowledge and abilities.

To raise standards through training and education, and through learning on the job, we need to be able to assess what capacity individuals and organisations have, and to plan how to develop it. Capacitycheck is an aid to doing this.

Below are Capacitycheck surveys for you to complete online. You can assess the existing skills of an individual or organisation, or the skills that are required.

Click here to assess skills needed for a particular job description or by an organisation.
Click here to assess the existing capacity of an individual or organisation.
Click here to identify your personal aspirations for urban design skills.