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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...
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We're Building Beautiful Cities Again - with The Aesthetic City
YouTube video by Create Streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V-kZJ__I&t
6 months ago
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Check out our director Nicholas Boys Smith MBE on The Critic Show last week talking about the construction and restoration of the Palace of Westminster. You can watch it here
www.outpoststudios.net/p/the-palace...
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The Palace of Westminster is Falling Down.
And other tales of architectural misadventure
https://www.outpoststudios.net/p/the-palace-of-westminster-is-falling?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
about 14 hours ago
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The best streets have enclosure & variety in a pattern.
20 days ago
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Struggling to think of a Christmas present for the urbanists & artists in your life? Check out the upcoming Create Streets Foundation short courses! Gentle Density Masterclass -
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating_gen...
Dare to Draw -
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/dare-to-draw/
26 days ago
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This slice of Paris is new. Every mote of it. New homes & places don't need to be loveless. We chose to create ugly places because we don't ask: is this humane? Is this lovely? Is this kind? But we can afford to. If we dare to slip the surly bonds. Read more -
www.createstreets.com/projects/com...
27 days ago
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CAMBRIDGE: New data. Clear preferences. The public want buildings that fit in, not stick out. A new poll by DeltapollUK Create Streets finds 71% of Britons prefer a traditional alternative to the current design for the Christās College library.
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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 āthe finest piece of urbanism at that scaleā for over 100 years .... š§µ
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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...
about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Create Streets
Thomas Ableman
2 months ago
Have just seen this great little article on German trams by
@robertkwolek.bsky.social
of
@createstreets.bsky.social
www.createstreets.com/the-country-...
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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 StraĆenbahn, or āstreet [ā¦]
https://www.createstreets.com/the-country-that-never-tore-up-its-tracks/
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Our generationās 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 buildingā¦
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Many of Britainās 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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Samuel Hughes
5 months ago
Northdown Road, Islington, 2008 to 2019.
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New Gentle Density emerging in London. A lot is admirable here. Curves. Arches. Texture. Reeding. Implied pilasters. Slowly, pace by pace we are winning.
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Great to be included among many other informative and transformative groups and people in the urban design sphere!
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3 months ago
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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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Create Streets
Campaign for Better Transport
3 months ago
šØNEW 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-...
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Making the connection
How can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog
https://bettertransport.org.uk/blog/making-the-connection
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If you are in Liverpool for this year's Labour Conference, come along and join the conversation (outside the secure zone!)
#LPC25
3 months ago
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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%...
4 months ago
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reposted by
Create Streets
Campaign for Better Transport
4 months ago
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
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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....
4 months ago
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Amazingly, this is new. The spell of faceless traffic modernism is breaking.
4 months ago
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New regeneration near Paris: helping the virtuous circle of place spin after 80 years of failed traffic-modernism ā Gentle Density ā Popular ā Beautiful ā Street trees ā Equal quantum of social housing ā Supports trams, bikes, walking ā Higher land values ā Homes, shops, offices šLes Plessis-Robinson
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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 Roadās transformation some 20 years ago...
5 months ago
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'There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,ā said Samuel Johnson, āby which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.ā
6 months ago
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Glasgowās late C19th & early C20th architecture is inspiring, traditional forms & patterns applied with confident aplomb to new commercial requirements, as banks...
6 months ago
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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...
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We're Building Beautiful Cities Again - with The Aesthetic City
YouTube video by Create Streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V-kZJ__I&t
6 months ago
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Nearly everything weāve done to our towns and cities for the last century has heated them up. That might be good in the winter. But itās definitely bad in the summer. Weāve cut down street trees to let the cars drive faster, and to make the lives of highways officials easier.
7 months ago
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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 ādanger zoneā for many modish new developments.....
7 months ago
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East to west, south to north a quiet revolution is underway. We're escaping the errors of traffic modernism. We're daring, again, to create new places or re-stitch old ones to be beautiful, durable, happy & humane...
7 months ago
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Want to learn to create places people are proud of? At the Create Streets Foundation Summer School, we explore how to design towns and neighbourhoods that are beautiful, sociable, sustainable and loved. With leading tutors including from ADAM Architecture and beyond...
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7 months ago
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š Only 2% of British adults trust developers to improve places. But what if... a development made a street more attractive, not less? š§µA critical friend review of Shoreditch Works & how we can build a better London for everyone.
8 months ago
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Bathos (noun) An effect of anticlimax created by a lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
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Why do some places stall while others thrive? Because a vague guide delays. A good design code speeds up good development - by being crystal clear about whatās allowed and de-risking the right homes in the right places.
www.createstreets.com/five-ingredi...
8 months ago
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Is anything as joyful as Dutch cities? Gentle Density with canals, bikes & audible birdsong
8 months ago
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Greening up the streets in the office today....
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8 months ago
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There's still a seat available on our hand drawing course in London tomorrow! Suitable for anyone interested in hand drawing streets and buildings for work or for fun -
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/dare-to-draw/
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8 months ago
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Do you think it's Time for Trams to boost Britain's urban prosperity and enable more Gentle Density development? If you do then why not find out more about our Tram Network with Campaign for Better Transport. You can...
8 months ago
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In 2024 Create Streets helped the Chiswick Flower Market run a community consultation on how to improve the public realm along Chiswick High Road using our Create Communities platform...
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š¢ Only a few spaces left for the next Create Streets Foundation 'Dare to Draw' course! Come and spend a day refining your urban and architectural drawing skills with guidance from Mark Shepherdāļø Learn more and book your place here
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/dare-to-draw/
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The Northumberland Rail project has seen 250,000 riders in the time they forecast for just 50,000... Good news? Well yes, but this begs the question. How many high-demand transit projects like this don't event leave the station due to a wrongly predicted cost-benefit-scenario?...
9 months ago
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Whatās attractive about seemingly every French town is the quality & the consistency of the street furniture.
9 months ago
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Our latest blog by our Associate Director Eleanor Broad, explores the 'quiet clarity of Bordeauxās urban transformation ā a vision that gently balances heritage and modernity; trams and cars; Bordeaux limestone and abundant greenery...'
9 months ago
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If you're interested in learning more about restoring listed buildings, then do check out the Create Streets Foundation 'Living with Listing' masterclass this May! -
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/living-with-...
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9 months ago
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The streets of Nansledan are built for people not just cars: wide pavements, tree-lined avenues & gentle densities. What is the difference between a sustainable building and a sustainable place? All the difference in the world...
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9 months ago
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Many of Britainās high streets are dirty. This isn't fly tipping, it's our system operating as it's meant to. Businesses must leave waste on pavements competing for space with pedestrians. Let's find out why & how to fix it... a short š§µ
9 months ago
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Dave Hill
9 months ago
More about high streets, pavements, rubbish, ASB & dangers of decline:
davehillonlondon.substack.com/p/how-to-rid...
Includes coverage of new
@createstreets.bsky.social
report. Be a paid subscriber to my Substack & help support an entire
#London
journalism website and its top-of-the-range writers.
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How to rid London's high streets of their rubbish (plus related pavement thoughts)
I read a report, a went for a walk, I had some thoughts and wrote them down
https://davehillonlondon.substack.com/p/how-to-rid-londons-high-streets-of
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The ever popular 'Dare to Draw' course is back on the 10th May āļøDo sign up if you would like to draw streets and buildings like this brilliant example from one of our recent attendees -
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/dare-to-draw/
9 months ago
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reposted by
Create Streets
UCL Policy Lab
9 months ago
As the government works to deliver new homes and infrastructure, we met with the team at
@createstreets.bsky.social
who are helping create the tools and ideas to build local support for development.
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Building beautiful: how Create Streets is on a mission to get Britain building better
As the government works to deliver new homes and infrastructure, we meet the community of designers, campaigners, and thinkers who are helping create the tools and ideas to build local support for dev...
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/news/2025/feb/building-beautiful-how-create-streets-mission-get-britain-building-better
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