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The best density is gentle .....

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Ever heard of Toulouse as a city centre whose improved street design is revolutionising local prosperity? It’s not normally lauded as a case study. But quality of the street design is staggering. The results are stunning. Literally no empty shops in town centre. How? A short 🧵

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Trams and trees 🚋 🌳 ❤️

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Trees & bikes make streets better. Utrecht reborn. Via ⁦ @edwinlucas_ ⁩

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2,000 years ago a toddler stepped on this red clay tile drying in the sun of Roman Gaul ....

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This is the Piece Hall in Halifax, Yorkshire. It bares comparison with Piazza San Marco in Venice. It should be one of England’s most famous buildings. You should go.

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This is The Piece Hall in Halifax. It survives comparison with St Mark’s Square in Venice. It should be one of Europe’s most famous buildings. Lockdown is over. Please do visit it.

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Anglo-Saxon map of London. Find places you know. Oddly compelling. Camberwelle. Brixges Stane. Padintune.

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On the left, London's new water fountains. Oh the right, a Victorian example. The collapse in quality is profound and goes far beyond design. We appear to have lost any sense of civic pride, to be unable to build for the future rather than for the next few weeks..... 😡☹️

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Density is not the problem

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Time to put roads on a diet Via @ScootFoundation & @tobylloyd

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Bins or kids? Remaking Middlesbrough via @GroundworkGM

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This is a recently completed British train station. Value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture….

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This is a recently completed British train station. It is not civic or sociable architecture. It is antisocial. It says, “don’t come here”, “ don’t use me“, “why don’t you take the car?”……

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These Düsseldorf homes are new. No rule of economics or physics prevents us creating beautiful places How exquisitely the architect, Sebastian Treese, varies the pattern: colour, window shape, the presence (or not) of a bay or use of shutters all alternate like rhyming couplets

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Density is not the problem.

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Flashmob Beethoven. This is lovely. Despite everything, some things still move the soul. Watch out for the children conducting on lampposts & the smile on the violinist’s face as the music ends. Via @JadedCreative

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#StreetScar We’ve all seen this: the freshly laid paving, newly laid granite setts or Yorkstones lovingly laid on a slow street or in front of a freshly repaired parade of shops. Within months, weeks or, sometimes days, a slice or a square of them are pulled up thoughtlessly...…

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2 years

A question. How many ways would your town or city authorities ban this street if you dared to build it today?

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Do the world’s cities have any higher form than the house-lined canals of Holland?The narrow fronts, the variety in a pattern, the jangle of slightly different heights & breadths, pot plants & shops, the quiet of the bicycles, the gentle density all magically doubled by the canal

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1 year

The death of US downtown 📸 via @orangutanagram

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Before or after? Superb restoration by @dubcivictrust of terraced house at #18OrmondQuayUpper . Not just conserved but also returned to its original 1843 appearance. 😊

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5 years

When things seem bad, give thanks for the realities we avoided....

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Bit off subject for us but this is mesmerising. We’re using the beautiful shot of Mont St Michael at the beginning as our excuse ....😏

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The joy of brick

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Illegal urbanism. In many towns in many countries, windows, door, distance between walls & lack of parking would make this impossible to build. And yet beautiful, resilient, walkable #GentleDensity is the path to more homes & happier neighbourhoods needing less land

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Density is not the enemy #Florence

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This is new. Most people believe that new homes will make existing places worse. Let’s change that.

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Density is not the problem

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A question for you. How many ways would your town or city authorities ban this street if you dared to build it today?

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London on a clean day, 98 years ago. Less traffic. More pedestrians. Dirtier buildings (all that coal soot).

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Wonder how many thousands of permits & principles this would break in any modern planning or building regs ? Access, gradient, parking, preservation probably and yet people love it. 🤔

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Almost everything that could be right in a local high street is in this photo. This street is ready to play its role as a popular, prosperous, safe, beautiful & useful centre of its neighbourhood. Create Streets like this.

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Create Places you can do this in Lovely 🎥 via @Lily27470606

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Oh for streets and architecture with whimsy, joy and humour..... More of this please

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On the left an old bus shelter On the right a modern place of worship at Bristol airport. Comment or satire appears superfluous.

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Five to six storeys and nobody minds ... (no parking though)

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Cleaning off the age of coal....

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Long live street trees. They improve air quality & tend to cut traffic speeds & accidents. They are associated with more walking & happier residents....

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Here’s an interesting 1961 @BBCArchive video in which some very level-headed South London school girls are not impressed with their new school & give the architect a deferentially tough time. Illustrates 2 themes ....

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These are new. No rule of economics or physics prevents us creating beautiful,walkable new places. We do it to ourselves.

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3 years

Create cities with trams Create streets with trees Which UK city will be the first to dare to do this?

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Over the last century, we have too frequently made our towns & cities shorter, lower density, uglier & less flexible. It’s been a mistake of historic proportions. Over the next generation we can & must reverse it. This is Cardiff vis @gomedia91

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New house in Wiltshire

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How it started How it’s going. Marvellous work by ⁦ @dubcivictrust ⁩

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Build bricks for bees please. 🧱 🐝 😊

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This is a modern building. Hotel Picasso in Barcelona, 🇪🇸 2012 by Wortmann Architects Ultimately only mind-forged manacles stop us rediscovering what it is to live with beauty.

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More height. More home. Stepping up beautifully in West London & treating its citizens with civic respect.

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NIMBY-killer. This house is new.

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Adding a string course with burnt headers. Ornament need not be expensive.

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Should we create more shop fronts like this rather than panels of pure plate glass? 102 High Street, Wavertree. Also via @LiverpoolVista who are worth a follow

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Heavens - this new Dutch building is good. Via @michael_diamant

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Late 19th and early 20th century European cities basically cracked how to create beautiful gentle density buildings which give light to the interior and dignified elegance to the street. Then we forgot. It is time to re-learn.

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Create buildings worth reflecting. Five storeys. Nobody minds.

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This used to be Utrecht’s moat. For 40 years it was a ring road & now it is a canal again. We all make mistakes. Clever places fix them. Video via @Sustainable2050

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When did this become good enough for us as a society? Who designed it? Who permitted it? Who invested in it?

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Which of these places do you think is often described as the ‘most photographed’ or ‘most beautiful’ place in Boston ?

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The centre of Siena & a highway interchange in Houston are of similar size. The first is a home to 30,000 people; the second is a home to no one. cc @simongerman600

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We're currently writing a brief paper with policy recommendations on #StreetScars - the scars to street surfaces made by & not repaired by utility firms. Like this horror in Dean Street, London. If you have photos of such crimes that you would not mind us using then...

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Thanet Railway Station As just built by @railandroad As imagined by @c_k_lynch 😞 😔

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Oslo’s Mayor says banning cars from the city centre was like banning smoking: people complained until they saw the result.....

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A million hurrahs for this.

Mark Shepherd 📐📷

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KFC Twickenham have chosen a shopfront with traditional design elements over the usual betting shop aesthetic. A change of thinking at corporate level amongst high street chains would solve most of the poor shopfront designs blighting high streets.

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Density is not the enemy

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The loss of childrens’ liberty to walk through and play in streets is one of the great cultural changes in the last 100 years - slow, almost unremarked upon but profound nevertheless

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When kids ruled the streets . Belfast, 1969. No image credit

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Density is not the enemy.

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We can still build beautifully. This is the Wintles, Shropshire...

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Belfast in 1973

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Two background stills fro Disney’s 101 Dalmations in 1961. What did the animators understand about urban design that most house builders and architects still don’t ?

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Gentle density in Boston 📸 via @archi_tradition

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Less space can be more place.

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Strasbourg new and old. One is built to please humans, the other to win prizes.

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Two generations ago, the UK made a mistake of historic proportions & ripped up its tram network. It’s time to put that right now. Photo via @_dmoser

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Build cities with love. Not like this.

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Slowly we are winning. Remarkably these are not just new but done by a (medium sized) housebuilder. Imperfect (upvc windows which are a sustainability crime) but pretty decent #GentleDensity in front of a modest village green.

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These are new.

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Creating homes and intensifying the street sustainably with popular consent by Paris. Via the always well-informed @michael_diamant

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What a miserable downgrade.From the friendly to the faceless; from the lively to the loveless.

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York Street, Belfast - 40 years on. Anything goes.

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Creating streets in Dorset. This street is new.

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Before .... and after Shopkeepers’ fears are 100% understandable but good news is that re-humanising streets normally leads to INCREASED shop takings. Argyle Street, Halifax, via ⁦ @berkie1 ⁩ & 📸 ⁦ @tjhfx ⁩

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How should we design our streets and squares? For the human spirit to sing or to be machine-readable?

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Gosh this is good. New gentle density in Wimbledon. Complexity. Composure. Colour. Character. Why it’s best to innovate in a tradition rather than throw the tradition away. ⁦ @RoryStewartUK ⁩ Via ⁦ @SeasideFerry ⁩ @ ⁦ @JSDBroughton ⁩

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Bigger and better …

YIMBY Poland 🇵🇱🥟

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Before and after in Łódź

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Create places with corners and the chance for dappled light

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It is deeply perverse and utterly wrong to be building homes with an expected lifespan of only 60 years. Careless of the planet and of the places we inhabit. We should be building buildings that will be loved and cherished and preserved 300 years hence. Create homes not units.

House of Lords Built Environment Committee

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Carl Leaver from @TopHatIO : “Our homes are designed with a life of 60 years, which is exactly the same as traditionally constructed homes. There is no difference between the lifecycles of our homes and traditionally constructed homes.” #MMC inquiry

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The English terraced house. High density. Efficient. Popular. Green. Easy to build. Much loved. Beuatiful #gentledensity #createstreets

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Pub, phone, church & snow. Haworth in winter. Photo by @Disc_light who is worth a follow

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We’ve tweeted it before, we will tweet it again! Well done to @dubcivictrust for a marvellous, beautiful, regenerative transformation of this lovely Irish building

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As pretty as a signal box. The idea that utilitarian buildings need to be ugly is one of the greatest crimes we have perpetrated upon ourselves in the last 70 years.

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What should a future Euston Quarter look like ? Here's one idea: trees, trams & towers with rooftop terraces instead of turrets or cupolas. Less of an individual building & more a glorious & new part of the city. Storeys of offices & homes above the extravagantly glazed shops…

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Who says you cannot make a staircase out of stained glass? Hanone Museum, Japan. Via @archeohistories

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If in doubt ….. Create Prague

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The Story of England in four pictures. What’s so depressingly telling is that in the 4th, it’s no longer considered important to show the actual detail of the village. From ‘Our Land in the Making’, 1966 & via marvellous ⁦ @LBFlyawayhome ⁩: who’s worth following

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Over the last decade, an increasing number of rural French villages have been creating a “zone de rencontre” where cars are not banned but “come second” to people & bikes. Despite these horrid signs they are TRANSFORMATIONAL to village character & prosperity …

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This is Britain’s oldest door, 5 vertical oak planks cut from 1 tree that grew in Eastern England from AD924 to 1030. It’s stood in @wabbey for nearly 1000 yrs 6.5 ft high with 3 battens, similar doors are still being built to same purpose today. Humans change less than we think

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Create corners with bevels. 😊

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What is this genteel European city? Paris? Vienna? It is New York 110 years ago. Time to reinvest in public realm? Colourised photo via ⁦ @greekchungus ⁩ & ⁦ @JeffSpeckFAICP ⁩