Complete Streets – Specialising in delivering more human-centric villages towns and cities through contemporary street design, better parking strategies and genuine centre revitalisations.

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Street Makers

We are

differently.

We look at cities a bit

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Based in Australia, we have had the opportunity to travel
to communities around the world, learning what works and what doesn't.

Experience

Global

Delivering more human-centric villages towns and cities through contemporary street design.

Cities and towns need good streets.

They are your front door mat, they are how you express yourself to the world. Tired uninteresting streets dominated by cars will turn away visitors, investors and day to day users of your town or city, and all too often they won’t come back. What is your town doing about this?

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Street Maker

We make streets all over the world and it’s the best job ever! Making spaces where people can play, shop, gather, drink, eat, and walk is a real privilege.

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Bad streets make bad towns

But good streets are easier to make than you think. We can walk through the process together for a great outcome.

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Good streets are easier to make than you think

We can walk through the process together for a great outcome.

RE-LEARNING THE ART OF STREET MAKING

MAKING BETTER CITIES

SERIOUSLY - A CAR PARK?

WHY WORK WITH US?

We make streets all over the world and it’s the best job ever! Making spaces where people can play, shop, gather, drink, eat, and walk is a real privilege. There are cars in most of the streets we make, but they don’t take much effort to look after, we are streetmakers after all, not road makers. If cars don’t want to come to our streets they don’t have to. Our Complete Streets director has tertiary qualifications in Engineering and an MBA majoring in economics. If you want an active prosperous town with energetic, sticky and recognizable streets, let's make some together…

RE-LEARNING THE ART OF STREET MAKING

In our public spaces there are two basic activities that occur. We are either moving, or we are exchanging. Moving is self-explanatory but also includes the associated moving and parking infrastructure. Exchanging is when the magic happens. When people gather, shop, eat, drink, create, play etc. This happens when we create place rather than movement. The reason getting the priorities right between movement and place is that movement costs money and we need exchange places to return money to the community. The world is overloaded with cities and suburbs where, in the pursuit of better movement - our places have been destroyed. We need to re-learn the art of street making and make people out priority.

MAKING BETTER CITIES

Cities can and should be better. There are ones around the world that get certain aspects right, but rarely are they as happy and healthy as they should be. Our real failing is that we have almost forgot the users or customers. We make Cities about buildings, about transport about Smart Tech, but we have forgotten about making them for people.

SERIOUSLY - A CAR PARK?

So, you need more car parking? We bet you don’t. Cities all over the world do have car parking problems but by and large the problem is you have too many! Way too many! It’s costing you millions. Millions in lost retail, millions in additional traffic snarls and crashes, millions in construction costs - the list goes on. We are ruining our towns and cities with a land use we don’t even need! We do of course need some parking, but find out why it is not a governments responsibility to provide it. Getting on top of your parking issues will open up a whole new world of investment, tourism and local vitality. Less is more important than you think!

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Testimonial

As a Councillor and Deputy Mayor of the Sunshine Coast Council, I have had a long association with Steven Burgess and his work on revitalising urban places through better movement strategies.

I have attended Steven’s Street Design Master Classes and his ability to explain the broad community benefits of recreating streets and centres for people, not cars is genuinely unique.

As an elected representative I left with a new perspective and armed with much more knowledge on how to improve the circumstances for my community.

I highly recommend Steven as an informative, thought-provoking and inspirational speaker.

Cr. Tim Dwyer, Sunshine Coast Councillor-Division 2 & Deputy Mayor
“In speaking to the function of streets and their preeminent functions in social engagement as well as handling traffic, Steven distils the essence of his narrative to a clear irrefutable case, whilst simultaneously being able to back-up his argument with technical data.”

Peter Ciemitis, FPIA, Convenor Planning Institute of Australia (WA) Urban Design Chapter