Angela Koch, Director Imagine Places

Angela is an accomplished project, programme and process designer and facilitator. She founded ImaginePlaces in 2010. The work she gets involved with, and importantly how she approaches it, builds on 15 years of hands-on expertise in gathering a wide range of stakeholders at the heart of the urban design, planning and delivery process. She is interested in urban change on the neighbourhood scale, neighbourhood planning, design codes and co-designing – always involving many stakeholders – and the complexities of town centres and high streets.  Angela speaks, publishes and teaches on plan-making best practices, co-design tools and town centre performance. She co-wrote ‘Paved with
Gold – the real value of good street design’, is a National Neighbourhood Planning advisor for Locality and the Royal Town PIanning Institute – Planning Aid England and a Professional Member of the Prince’ s Foundation for Building Community. She is the founder of the 

London Neighbourhood Planning Gathering initiative. Affiliations:  Royal Society of Arts, Academy of Urbanism, Prince’s Foundation for Building
Community, Bartlett Planning School/UCL, Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Urbanistas uk.