Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Not many new developments do this. Architecture so good you put it on your advertisement. 120
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/04/2026For too long, Croydon has been the poster child for what happens when “traffic modernism” is allowed to rip the heart out of a historic town. 111
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Our founder Nicholas Boys Smith was in Rome last week, speaking on the ecology of everyday streets at the CNAPPC Conference on new paradigms of urban life: proximity, well-being in cities and territories. You can check out his talk over on our YouTube channel youtube.com/watch?v=_YAC...youtube.comNicholas Boys Smith - The ecology of everyday streets | CNAPPC Conference, RomeYouTube video by Create Streets 010
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Join us this year for the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture Summer School, and find inspiration with like-minded individuals in the beautiful setting of Sherborne, Dorset. Our early bird discount deadline ends April 1st! www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-pla... 011
Reposted by Create StreetsCampaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Our latest report in partnership with @createstreets.bsky.social, funded by RAC Foundation & written by @freewheeling.info, examines if a French-style tram-enabled housing model could work here. Read the report👉https://bettertransport.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2603-Towns-and-Trams-report.pdf 086
Reposted by Create StreetsLondon New Liberals @londonnewliberals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Should YIMBYs Build Beautiful? Get your tix now for @robertkwolek.bsky.social of @createstreets.bsky.social Wednesday, 18:30; The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia www.eventbrite.com/e/robert-kwo... 011
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Housing targets have doubled. New NPPF rules demand vision-led planning, new parking standards and better streets. Yet housing and transport still clash at adoption stage. Join our free webinar on delivering streets from vision to adoption. www.tickettailor.com/events/creat... 010
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/02/2026New English planning rules insist upon Gentle Density in brownfield sites & within 800m of well connected train stations. But what does that mean? And how do you make it? 110
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"Poundbury is exceptional. It also has faults. Of course it does. It is made by humans, after all." “It is a town, not a housing estate. This distinguishes Poundbury from any other development of the last 80 years... 121
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/02/2026New English planning rules insist upon Gentle Density in brownfield sites & within 800m of well connected train stations. But what does that mean? And how do you make it? 110
Reposted by Create StreetsSamuel Hughes @scp-hughes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026New social housing in Islington from around 2010 (yes, really). 1143
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 06/02/2026We can design, we can afford & we can create beautiful new streets & places. Observe how some gable ends, properly detailed windows & a brick floor make all the difference here. Little things. Modest costs. And yet they transform the loveless into the lovely. 370
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/02/2026🚨Tomorrow. Hackney’s Planning Committee faces a choice that matters well beyond Shoreditch. Supporting Shoreditch Works would signal that London backs good growth in the right places, growth that strengthens streets, supports jobs and contributes to the long-term health of the city. 230
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29/01/2026How did we ban beauty by mistake? You can read our latest report Banning Beauty featured prominently in the @telegraph.co.uk 330
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 26/01/2026What a happy looking home and garden. Observe the details & coherence which lifts the house from a wall with nine holes to something worth looking at. 120
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/01/2026As the days begin to get longer, the countdown to the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture Summer School begins! Will you be joining us? ➡️https://createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-places-academy/summer-school/ #summerschool #urbandesign #architecture 130
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 16/01/2026We're growing the team! Are you passionate about designing streets and places that people actually want to live in? We're looking for talented people who care about creating beautiful, human-scale urban environments: 110
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade. 030
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade. 021
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Check 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...outpoststudios.netThe Palace of Westminster is Falling Down.And other tales of architectural misadventure 010
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 17/12/2025The best streets have enclosure & variety in a pattern. 1112
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Struggling 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/ 020
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 10/12/2025This 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... 182
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025CAMBRIDGE: 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 Christ’s College library. 231
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Is 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 “the finest piece of urbanism at that scale” for over 100 years .... 🧵 120
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 11/11/2025What 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... 184
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Much 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. 151
Reposted by Create StreetsThomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 05/11/2025Have just seen this great little article on German trams by @robertkwolek.bsky.social of @createstreets.bsky.social www.createstreets.com/the-country-...createstreets.comThe Country That Never Tore Up Its Tracks - Create StreetsBy Robert Kwolek Germany may be the land of Autobahns and Audis, but its true urban workhorse is the Straßenbahn, or ‘street […] 052
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Our generation’s 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 building… 111
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Many of Britain’s 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? 3138
Reposted by Create StreetsSamuel Hughes @scp-hughes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Northdown Road, Islington, 2008 to 2019. 1145
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/10/2025New Gentle Density emerging in London. A lot is admirable here. Curves. Arches. Texture. Reeding. Implied pilasters. Slowly, pace by pace we are winning. 2130
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Great to be included among many other informative and transformative groups and people in the urban design sphere! 0131
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/10/2025If 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.... 361
Reposted by Create StreetsCampaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 03/10/2025🚨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-...bettertransport.org.ukMaking the connectionHow can rail contribute to a more prosperous, better connected and more equitable Britain? Find out in our latest blog 031
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 24/09/2025If you are in Liverpool for this year's Labour Conference, come along and join the conversation (outside the secure zone!) #LPC25 182
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The 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%... 121
Reposted by Create StreetsCampaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Got 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. 043
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/09/2025If 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.... 1114
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Amazingly, this is new. The spell of faceless traffic modernism is breaking. 281
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Want to hear more about our work and research, then we can ever post here? Then do sign up to our newsletter. It only takes 30 seconds. a43cbf12.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAA... 021
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 05/08/2025New regeneration near Paris: helping the virtuous circle of place spin after 80 years of failed traffic-modernism ✅Gentle Density ✅Popular ✅Beautiful ✅Street trees ✅Equal quantum of social housing ✅Supports trams, bikes, walking ✅Higher land values ✅Homes, shops, offices 📍Les Plessis-Robinson 084
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 31/07/2025As 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 Road’s transformation some 20 years ago... 131
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 07/07/2025'There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,’ said Samuel Johnson, ‘by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.’ 130
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Glasgow’s late C19th & early C20th architecture is inspiring, traditional forms & patterns applied with confident aplomb to new commercial requirements, as banks... 150
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Everywhere 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...youtube.comWe're Building Beautiful Cities Again - with The Aesthetic CityYouTube video by Create Streets 153
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Nearly everything we’ve done to our towns and cities for the last century has heated them up. That might be good in the winter. But it’s definitely bad in the summer. We’ve cut down street trees to let the cars drive faster, and to make the lives of highways officials easier. 121
Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Kentlands 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 ‘danger zone’ for many modish new developments..... 121
