Ben Hamilton-Baillie

Who is Ben Hamilton-Baillie?

Ben Hamilton-Baillie is an urban designer and movement specialist from Bristol, United Kingdom. He is the director of his own company, Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd., where role he provides consultancy advice on traffic and urban renewal. He has taught extensively in the UK and USA.

He trained as an architect in Cambridge, and worked in London, Hamburg and Turkey before moving to Bristol where he spent 13 years in housing renewal and development. In 1995, he became regional manager for Sustrans, a sustainable transport charity in England. With Sustrans, he helped complete the first phase of the UK’s National Cycle Network, and to develop transport initiatives such as ‘Safe Routes to Schools’ and home zones.

Baillie later researched and promoted new approaches to traffic management and street design. He was awarded a Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship in 2000 which permitted him to visit and report on European and Scandinavian home zones. In 2001, he was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow. He served on the expert team for the European Union project developing “Shared space” with projects in Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. He is the author of "Traffic in Villages - A Toolkit for Communities" published by Dorset AONB in 2012. He was lead designer for the regeneration of the Cheshire town of Poynton, involving the redesign of Fountain Place and the removal of the former traffic signals.