MAKE Associates are the night-time city experts. For more than 20 years the MAKE team has pioneered new ways of planning, designing, managing and measuring towns and cities at night.

Nobody has done more for towns and cities at night since we created the first night-time economy strategy back in 1996. But for us, this is just the start; others are joining our movement to create amazing places to live, work and visit after dark.

Want to learn more? Then read about us and view a collection of our favourite projects from the past two decades of building better cities at night.

WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL: Inclusion in the night-time economy

The night-time economy is for everyone right? Yet certain people feel excluded and Westminster sought to do something about it. We advised them how.

London Legacy Development Corporation: OLYMPIC PARK NIGHT-TIME PLANNING

After a decade of encouraging local authorities to produce their own dedicated night-time planning documents, someone finally did it. Well done LLDC! 

Kerb: Seven Dials Food Market Licensing and Planning Advisors

Street food has become big (yet small) business. Kerb wanted to house a selection of its 100 delicious traders in an old warehouse in Covent Garden. They asked MAKE to assess the scheme’s impact. 

View over 80 Further CASE STUDIES in our project portfolio…

SOHO ANGELS and night hub EVALUATION

MAKE has been evaluating the Soho Angels ‘safe space’ project led by Westminster City Council and the LGBT Foundation. It is the most comprehensive project of its kind in the UK. Over the past year the scheme has helped over a thousand people, from those who have had too much to drink and those who have been assaulted or robbed, as well as those who are lost and vulnerable in London’s most iconic nightlife hotspot.

MAKE MEETS MANNHEIM: NØK INTERNATIONAL NIGHT CULTURE CONFERENCE 2019

MAKE founder, Alistair, was asked to talk on the opening panel at 2019’s Mannheim. It was both a great honour and amazing fun. The conference had the best mix of speakers and professional organisation of any event that we have attended in over 20 years in our field of after dark cities.  

Later opening London… How to MAKE London Work for All

At MAKE we’ve been arguing for over a decade that there needs to be a much greater understanding of the costs and benefits of opening towns and cities later into the evening and at night. Finally, someone agrees with us… the Mayor of London no less.

READ MORE After Dark thoughts in our news hub…