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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · Jun 27
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...
We're Building Beautiful Cities Again - with The Aesthetic City
YouTube video by Create Streets
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
Great to be included among many other informative and transformative groups and people in the urban design sphere!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10d
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.
Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... and Wallis Road in Hackney (not yet built). We CAN do it in prosperous and less prosperous neighbourhoods but councils and landowners and neighbourhoods need to care and need to want to create places that make the heart sing. PS: we can help ! DO get in touch.
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... to Spitalfields Works in London by The Architecture Company...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... to Elephant Park by Maccreanor Lavington...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... to the Birmingham Road site in Lichfield currently in planning...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... to Roussillon Park in Chichester by Ben Pentreath...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... to Poundbury in Dorset led by the Duchy of Cornwall...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... to Timekeepers Square in Salford by McDonald Architects...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
... the Bourne Estate in London from 2017 by Matthew Lloyd Architects...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 5d
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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Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 5d
🚨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-...
Making the connection
How can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 14d
We'll explore if better cycling and walking can unlock more homes on less land, speed up delivery and drive growth in Britain. We hope to see you there!
@chrisboardman.bsky.social @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @shreyagnanda.bsky.social
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 14d
If you are in Liverpool for this year's Labour Conference, come along and join the conversation (outside the secure zone!) #LPC25
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23d
Our Chair, Nicholas Boys Smith MBE, sets out one potential solution through 'brownfield passports' which would pre-permit locally popular intensification.
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23d
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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Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 28d
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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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
...do get in touch if you'd like us to help you with YOUR urban restitching. We're data-led not design-led which means we ask the key questions
💕What places do people love?
💰What places are worth more?
🚶Where do people walk?
👩‍👩‍👧‍👧Where works for kids?
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Create Streets Ltd | Design practice, town-builder and think tank.
Create Streets is a design practice, town-builder and think tank. We lead research, master-planning, design coding and community co-design to help develop and steward beautiful and popular ‘gentle den...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
... do have a look at the plans here and...
oldtownnewbury.com/proposals/
Our proposals | Old Town Newbury
Discover Old Town Newbury’s proposal to revitalise the Kennet Centre, restoring historic urban patterns with pedestrian routes, intimate courtyards, and bespoke residences.
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
... too many British "regeneration" schemes are anything but: ugly, over-sized, greedy & loveless. Of course the "Old Town Newbury" proposals are not perfect (nothing in this world is) but they're proper urban restitching, undoing the deep errors made by traffic modernists...
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
“Making Newbury a town we can all be proud of.” Old Town Newbury could set the standard for British town centre regeneration. A place of beauty, prosperity & sustainability....
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
The proposals revive local identity and craft: brick detailing, corbels, arches, ironwork recalling the Eagle Works on site. Architecture that feels “of Newbury.”
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
It’s about re-stitching Newbury’s historic fabric: new alleys, mews, yards and courts echo the town’s original grain. Fine-grained “Lego towns” not crude “Duplo towns.”
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
It’s centripetal not centrifugal: bringing people back into town rather than pushing them out into car-dependent estates. Less infrastructure spend, more vitality.
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
This is gentle density: terraced homes & mansion blocks at 40–60 homes/hectare. The same land accommodates double the homes of suburban sprawl—while creating lively, walkable streets.
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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29d
It’s a triple win: more homes, a more beautiful place, and more sustainable living. 317 new homes, 950 residents, right in the heart of Newbury.
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