Soft Cities

soft cities was established by colm lacey, previously founding director and ceo of brick by brick, a multi-award winning development company and architecture practice and key influencer in a new era of public housing. we provide services to help clients design, procure and deliver housing and regeneration initiatives of genuine quality and relevance. we use our on-the-ground experience of delivering properly designed, inclusive development programmes to help clients define their own qualitative aspirations and actually get them implemented. we are practical, approachable and progressive, and make the necessary connections between the worlds of design, planning, construction, property, economics, politics and community to make housing and regeneration programmes work. each client’s needs are distinctly different and we work very flexibly to suit, but some of the more common services we provide include: development advice • development narrative and strategy advice • capacity, e