Back to Life is the winning entry to the Liverpool City Region’s ideas competition for a new post-covid family townhouse. The proposal tries to replicate the urban grain and scale of Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter, a good example of human-scale, civic place, with a tight, private mews condition at the centre. A 114sqm family home has been designed to sit on a 18.00m x 6.00m plot with a formal street elevation and ramped parking on one side, and an informal and neighbourly community mews on the other. A streets-first approach prioritises pedestrians and human spaces, while still providing for the needs of the city - retaining a strong street edge, familiar urban grain, defined rhythm, and a robust, characterful material palette. This efficient yet joyful use of land generates a net density of 75 homes per hectare.