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We're Building Beautiful Cities Again - with The Aesthetic City
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Everywhere people are rejecting places that are heartless, ugly and soulless. Find out where, how and why... We were delighted to work with our good friend The Aesthetic City voyaging around the urban renaissance now underway.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V...
Is this best news for city creation for over a century? In Solano County, California (California Forever) is attempting something fascinating: a unified-landowner model to build what might become “the finest piece of urbanism at that scale” for over 100 years .... 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Is this best news for city creation for over a century? In Solano County, California (California Forever) is attempting something fascinating: a unified-landowner model to build what might become “the finest piece of urbanism at that scale” for over 100 years .... 🧵
What a joy to behold. Gloucester's 26 Westgate ('Old Judges House'), and England's largest timber-framed townhouse has been repaired thanks to a grant from Historic England. Approaching 500 years old, it's now home to the Gloucester Antiques Centre. Long may she thrive...
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What a joy to behold. Gloucester's 26 Westgate ('Old Judges House'), and England's largest timber-framed townhouse has been repaired thanks to a grant from Historic England. Approaching 500 years old, it's now home to the Gloucester Antiques Centre. Long may she thrive...
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. But, what was destroyed may be reforged as our friends in glorious Dresden are demonstrating. This is new. Every gold stone of it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. But, what was destroyed may be reforged as our friends in glorious Dresden are demonstrating. This is new. Every gold stone of it.
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Have just seen this great little article on German trams by @robertkwolek.bsky.social of @createstreets.bsky.social
www.createstreets.com/the-country-...
www.createstreets.com/the-country-...
The Country That Never Tore Up Its Tracks - Create Streets
By Robert Kwolek Germany may be the land of Autobahns and Audis, but its true urban workhorse is the Straßenbahn, or ‘street […]
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November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Have just seen this great little article on German trams by @robertkwolek.bsky.social of @createstreets.bsky.social
www.createstreets.com/the-country-...
www.createstreets.com/the-country-...
Our generation’s gift to London. YES, YES, YES to new homes but this is not loving or respectful to places or their people. Meanwhile, less manacled by group think, Paris in the same decade is building…
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Our generation’s gift to London. YES, YES, YES to new homes but this is not loving or respectful to places or their people. Meanwhile, less manacled by group think, Paris in the same decade is building…
Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?
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Northdown Road, Islington, 2008 to 2019.
August 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Northdown Road, Islington, 2008 to 2019.
Interested in learning how to design beautiful and sustainable places with Create Streets’ experienced urban designers?...
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Interested in learning how to design beautiful and sustainable places with Create Streets’ experienced urban designers?...
New Gentle Density emerging in London. A lot is admirable here. Curves. Arches. Texture. Reeding. Implied pilasters. Slowly, pace by pace we are winning.
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New Gentle Density emerging in London. A lot is admirable here. Curves. Arches. Texture. Reeding. Implied pilasters. Slowly, pace by pace we are winning.
Great to be included among many other informative and transformative groups and people in the urban design sphere!
NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Great to be included among many other informative and transformative groups and people in the urban design sphere!
If you seek hope, looks at some of the marvellous Gentle Density happening in Britain right now. From the always marvellous work of Ollier Smurthwaite in Altrincham to....
October 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you seek hope, looks at some of the marvellous Gentle Density happening in Britain right now. From the always marvellous work of Ollier Smurthwaite in Altrincham to....
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🚨NEW BLOG
How can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog: bettertransport.org.uk/blog/making-...
How can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog: bettertransport.org.uk/blog/making-...
Making the connection
How can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog
bettertransport.org.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨NEW BLOG
How can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog: bettertransport.org.uk/blog/making-...
How can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog: bettertransport.org.uk/blog/making-...
The Road to a Proportionate System report, released today by Pocket Living, highlights both the challenges and opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in housebuilding. These small builders once delivered 40% of new homes, but now build barely 12%...
September 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Road to a Proportionate System report, released today by Pocket Living, highlights both the challenges and opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in housebuilding. These small builders once delivered 40% of new homes, but now build barely 12%...
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Got an idea for a sustainable transport project? We work with governments, businesses & non profits on bespoke projects & reports, having recently worked with @unisontheunion.bsky.social & @createstreets.bsky.social to name just two. Get in touch to find out more: bettertransport.org.uk/contact-us.
September 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Got an idea for a sustainable transport project? We work with governments, businesses & non profits on bespoke projects & reports, having recently worked with @unisontheunion.bsky.social & @createstreets.bsky.social to name just two. Get in touch to find out more: bettertransport.org.uk/contact-us.
If you want some hope for the future have a look at the proposals to restitch the ancient English town of Newbury. They're probably the best town centre development being proposed in Britain today, quite inspiring: a perfect example of three core concepts....
September 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you want some hope for the future have a look at the proposals to restitch the ancient English town of Newbury. They're probably the best town centre development being proposed in Britain today, quite inspiring: a perfect example of three core concepts....
Amazingly, this is new. The spell of faceless traffic modernism is breaking.
September 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Amazingly, this is new. The spell of faceless traffic modernism is breaking.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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New regeneration near Paris: helping the virtuous circle of place spin after 80 years of failed traffic-modernism
✅Gentle Density
✅Popular
✅Beautiful
✅Street trees
✅Equal quantum of social housing
✅Supports trams, bikes, walking
✅Higher land values
✅Homes, shops, offices
📍Les Plessis-Robinson
✅Gentle Density
✅Popular
✅Beautiful
✅Street trees
✅Equal quantum of social housing
✅Supports trams, bikes, walking
✅Higher land values
✅Homes, shops, offices
📍Les Plessis-Robinson
August 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
New regeneration near Paris: helping the virtuous circle of place spin after 80 years of failed traffic-modernism
✅Gentle Density
✅Popular
✅Beautiful
✅Street trees
✅Equal quantum of social housing
✅Supports trams, bikes, walking
✅Higher land values
✅Homes, shops, offices
📍Les Plessis-Robinson
✅Gentle Density
✅Popular
✅Beautiful
✅Street trees
✅Equal quantum of social housing
✅Supports trams, bikes, walking
✅Higher land values
✅Homes, shops, offices
📍Les Plessis-Robinson
As Sadiq Khan gets the green light to (finally) move Oxford Street towards pedestrianisation, with a new Mayoral Development Corporation to help make it happen, Nicholas Boys Smith and Eleanor Broad reflect on Exhibition Road’s transformation some 20 years ago...
July 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
As Sadiq Khan gets the green light to (finally) move Oxford Street towards pedestrianisation, with a new Mayoral Development Corporation to help make it happen, Nicholas Boys Smith and Eleanor Broad reflect on Exhibition Road’s transformation some 20 years ago...
'There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,’ said Samuel Johnson, ‘by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.’
July 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
'There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,’ said Samuel Johnson, ‘by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.’
Glasgow’s late C19th & early C20th architecture is inspiring, traditional forms & patterns applied with confident aplomb to new commercial requirements, as banks...
June 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Glasgow’s late C19th & early C20th architecture is inspiring, traditional forms & patterns applied with confident aplomb to new commercial requirements, as banks...
Everywhere people are rejecting places that are heartless, ugly and soulless. Find out where, how and why... We were delighted to work with our good friend The Aesthetic City voyaging around the urban renaissance now underway.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V...
We're Building Beautiful Cities Again - with The Aesthetic City
YouTube video by Create Streets
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Everywhere people are rejecting places that are heartless, ugly and soulless. Find out where, how and why... We were delighted to work with our good friend The Aesthetic City voyaging around the urban renaissance now underway.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V...
Nearly everything we’ve done to our towns and cities for the last century has heated them up. That might be good in the winter. But it’s definitely bad in the summer. We’ve cut down street trees to let the cars drive faster, and to make the lives of highways officials easier.
June 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Nearly everything we’ve done to our towns and cities for the last century has heated them up. That might be good in the winter. But it’s definitely bad in the summer. We’ve cut down street trees to let the cars drive faster, and to make the lives of highways officials easier.
Kentlands in Maryland, the first non-resort, new urban development in America, is 35 years old. It is the age at which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Marilyn Monroe died & the ‘danger zone’ for many modish new developments.....
June 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Kentlands in Maryland, the first non-resort, new urban development in America, is 35 years old. It is the age at which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Marilyn Monroe died & the ‘danger zone’ for many modish new developments.....