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We build parking lots for machines, and then wonder why we feel disconnected. Let's build parks for people. A great example from Melbourne. The project 'A Park Close to Home' aims to create and improve access to open space in areas of Merri-bek, in areas without parks within walking distance.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

That’s better. Greening up is good for you, for the air that you breathe & the neighbours with whom you live. It helps communities coalesce & encourages more active living. It’s great for children provides a natural fulcrum for community activity …

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Five storeys of new. Modernity has many faces.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

While the weather is still pretty chilly, we're looking ahead to the upcoming Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture summer school ✏️An intensive residential course on how to design beautiful, sustainable, prosperous, economically and socially successful places.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

British developers, politicians & officials are entirely unaware of the sheer quality, traditional beauty & popular appeal of Paris’s new suburbs, tripling density, respecting local preferences, creating sustainable new Gentle Density in communion with past, present & future.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

One for the tram lovers. Key point is that our cities should have far more powers to raise funds & make transport investments locally. David (of @createstreets.bsky.social) is right, this kind of thinking should be central to Labour’s house building plans (ie enabling transit oriented development)

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Our founder Nicholas Boys Smith MBE sits down with Ibstock to discuss how clay bricks can help create homes that stand the test of time. You can watch the full interview here www.ibstock.co.uk/built-to-las...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Quellijnstraat, Amsterdam in 2002 & today. Greenery, playground & cycle parking replace car parking. Paving replaces asphalt which helps to slow traffic, makes drivers aware they're sharing space with bikes or children playing & makes utility maintenance easier, without leaving messy patches behind

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Good places bring us together. French Gentle Density 🇫🇷

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Mirror towns are one of the ideas we suggested in our joint paper with @BritainRemade at the end of last year. You can read more here: www.createstreets.com/projects/cre...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Scratch the tarmac and find the stones beneath. A surprising number of old streets have layers of setts underneath...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

What are mirror towns and how might they help us build homes where the transport infrastructure to support them already exists? This short video explains all... @britainremade.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

What are mirror towns and how might they help us build homes where the transport infrastructure to support them already exists? This short video explains all... @britainremade.bsky.social

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Applications for the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture summer school (this July) are open! Here is a snapshot of what to expect... Learn more and apply here - www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-pla...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The best density is gentle... 🏘️

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“No place, person, or institution echoes through British history as joyfully as the pub. From Chaucer’s pilgrims departing The Tabard, to The Queen Vic in Eastenders, local boozers have always taken centre stage in British life." says Nicholas Boys Smith on our new report with @bbpa.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Just one place left for the Dare to Draw course this February! ✏️If you want to draw some beautiful buildings and streets then consider coming along - www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/dare-to-draw/

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This is a former warehouse in Leeds. Nothing, literally nothing, NEEDS to be ugly...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Another old part of London is to be new again. 11 years after the exhibition centre was demolished, 160 years after railways arrived, >900 years since de Vere family first built their eponymous manor house, Earl’s Court is being remade from the cleared earth. www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...

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Thank heavens for Ely Cathedral

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Some intriguing pipes that weren't on the underground survey plans. If only @createstreets.bsky.social proposals about underground maps & sharing pipework cd be adopted #GinkgoCorner

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