@createstreets

Design practice, town-builder, think tank. Master-planning, design codes, research, co-creating popular, beautiful, durable Gentle Density. @CreateStreetsFN

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Joined December 2012
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YIMBYs: “Why aren’t we more popular?” Also YIMBYs:
aoife 🎧🍸🌸🏳️‍🌈@DirteeerMartini17h
This circle sees about 7,330 trains and 790,000 passengers every day and yet there are 0 buildings taller than even 50 meters. The tallest being the opera with 45 meters .
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Why is the Chrysler Building so great I ask for @Telegraph? The Platonic ideal of an art deco skyscraper & a temple to the motor car. Stylised hubcaps, fenders and hoods encrust the façade. American eagles, new-world gargoyles, glare out protectively at the 61st floor. Above …
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The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is the world’s greatest shopping arcade. It gets everything right: location, innovation & beautification. Linking Milan’s Duomo with her opera house, La Scala, it brilliantly deploys Victorian glass & iron know-how to span soaring distances…
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Kitty Thompson🐿@kittyraethomp6h
The subjectivity embedded within the English planning system makes applications too costly, lengthy, and unpredictable, no matter their size and potential impact. Small but telling case studies show the value of a more rules-based approach. Croydon versus South Tottenham, for example, illustrates why design expectations must be codified too. Read more...
Jonathan O'Brien@jonobriOct 20
Replying to @salonium @WorksInProgMag
By-right permitting, taking planning powers off local councils, removing requirements e.g. around parking, removing (rather than adding!) subjective reviews.
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Nicholas Boys Smith@boys_nicholas6h
Build the Leeds tram. Build it now. Link it to pre-approved new Gentle Density development.
Dan Tomlinson MP
@dantomlinsonmp17h
One of the things I love about my role as a Minister in Number 10 North is that I get to work on progressing projects across the country to improve our economy. A bonus is that sometimes the boss lets me hold meetings in Number 10 Downing Street! So it was good to meet earlier with Peter Lowy, Director of Leeds United, to discuss how we can work with @TracyBrabin on the big regeneration planned at Elland Road. Yes, we discussed the tram too.
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Nicholas Boys Smith@boys_nicholas6h
Interestingly, this is precisely the case for more popularly beautiful development. The current system in UK does have a view on design but does so subjectively, unpredictably & normally in a way non-aligned with public preferences. Bring the democracy forward, set popular ..
Jonathan O'Brien@jonobriOct 20
Replying to @salonium @WorksInProgMag
By-right permitting, taking planning powers off local councils, removing requirements e.g. around parking, removing (rather than adding!) subjective reviews.
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Good news. Investment in infrastructure makes things better. Who knew? We should try it again one day.
BBC London
@BBCLondonNewsOct 12
Super sewer is cleaning up the Thames, says report ➡️ bbc.in/4yEYmIc
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‘Good things,’ wrote Roger Scruton ‘are easily destroyed, but not easily created.’ He had in mind the ‘collective assets’ of ‘peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit and the security of property’ but he might equally have been writing about architecture. Yesterday...
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What should Limoges do with their town hall? 1 Rebuild it as was? 2 Rebuild as an 'honest' modernist building? 3 Leave it as an 'honest' ruin (the National Trust approach) 4 Rebuild it even bigger & better & more beautiful?
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Nicholas Boys Smith@boys_nicholasOct 18
‘Good things,’ wrote Roger Scruton ‘are easily destroyed, but not easily created.’ He had in mind the ‘collective assets’ of ‘peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit and the security of property’ but he might equally have been writing about architecture. Yesterday...
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Ten minute towns or fifteen minute towns?
Robert Colvile@rcolvileOct 21
Replying to @rcolvile
1) Expand the radius for development from 800m (a 10-minute walk to the station) to 1,200m (15-minute walk) 2) Build near railway lines, not just stations (using the cash to build new stops) 3) Restore original density standards 4) Cut affordable housing quotas to get more built
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Should we build on ugly land near stations in the green belt?
Robert Colvile@rcolvileOct 21
Replying to @rcolvile
For this paper, @CPSThinkTank & @createstreets carried out the most detailed survey of England’s green belts in years. We trawled the data. We flew drones. And we found there is an awful lot of beautiful, valuable land. But there is an awful lot that isn't.
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Delighted to have contributed our land use & drone photography analysis to this important report by @CPSThinkTank
Robert Colvile@rcolvileOct 21
100 years ago, England embarked on one of the most successful urban expansion projects in history: the creation of Metroland, beautiful suburbs and towns, strung along the railway lines out of London. Today, @SCP_Hughes, @createstreets and I set out how we can do it again. (1/?)
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Robert Colvile@rcolvileOct 21
100 years ago, England embarked on one of the most successful urban expansion projects in history: the creation of Metroland, beautiful suburbs and towns, strung along the railway lines out of London. Today, @SCP_Hughes, @createstreets and I set out how we can do it again. (1/?)
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The plans to rebuild Parliament are indeed indefensible, outrageous, unnecessary. The most wasteful scope creep I have ever seen. Here’s what’s wrong with them, why and how to fix it: thecritic.co.uk/call-for-the…

Call for the King | Nicholas Boys Smith | The Critic Magazine

I have just finished reading the 128 pages of the Delivering restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: the costed proposals (as well as rereading previous reports) so that you don’t have…

thecritic.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch
@KemiBadenochOct 19
Cliveden House burnt down in 1849. The architect behind Parliament rebuilt it in two years. Now, Parliament has spent over a decade just planning its own repairs. What happened to the country that built things? 👇
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Pattern- book urban intensification. Great to see.
Michael Divita@MichaelPDivitaOct 21
The new infill homes of Cleveland Avenue, South Bend
New home with orange siding and a porch

ALT New home with orange siding and a porch

New home with black and gray siding and a porch

ALT New home with black and gray siding and a porch

New home with brown siding and a porch

ALT New home with brown siding and a porch

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Edward Teather@TeatherEdwardOct 9
If you prefer the building on the right to the car park on the left, then you are guilty of the worst architectural crime: liking "pastiche". Me in @CapX on how local councils waging war on "pastiche" developments is stopping things getting built at all👇 capx.co/the-war-on-pastiche-…
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Edward Teather@TeatherEdwardOct 18
Out for a walk along the Thames today and it's always amazing that everything pictured below was built in the 1980s. It's probably the nicest part of Richmond, but building "pastiche" things like this has now been banned by many planning authorities.
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Thank God the Victorians created our railway stations and hurrah for the seamless experience of arriving back in Britain by train.
David Milner@djjmilnerOct 20
Arriving into St Pancras does make you a bit proud. Eurostar train to the underground in about 5 minutes and unlike arriving into many airports the elegant building, bustle of the station and attractive public realm must give a great first impression of Britain.
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Tracy Brabin WY 🌹@TracyBrabinOct 20
An exciting time for Bradford and the whole of West Yorkshire. This announcement means we can now move to the next stage of development, ensuring that the people of Bradford get the world class station they deserve.
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Robert Colvile@rcolvileOct 20
More depressing news from @MoliorLondon: - London on course to deliver 20% of 88,000 home target - No recorded starts (developments of 20+ homes) in four boroughs - No local authority development in 21 boroughs - 'Skyline gap' b/t 6 and 15 storeys, cos second staircases
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