Nicholas Boys Smith is the founding director of Create Streets, a non-partisan social enterprise that fosters traditional, street-based urbanism. In just a few years, Create Streets has had an enormous impact on urbanism in the United Kingdom, working closely with both the national government and with numerous local authorities of both left and right, and transforming public discourse on how we should build our cities. Scruton asked Boys Smith to serve as a Commissioner on the Building Beautiful Commission, and during Scruton’s illness in the latter part of 2020 they worked together as Co-Chairs: Scruton described Boys Smith as ‘a wonder, a force of nature’. In his work, Boys Smith stresses the empirical arguments for traditional urbanism, from its demonstrable popularity, through its effects on health and wellbeing, to effects on the natural environment.