The way we live in our towns and cities in developed countries is unsustainable; it risks breakdown or serious failure if we go on in the way we have been doing.

The question we posed for our research is whether there are new approaches to financing, development and investment that will help to develop the built form in a more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable way.

We want to explore the relationships between the players in the property development process and see whether they can actually encourage sustainability, while still producing the outcomes needed by everyone involved in process.