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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Not many new developments do this. Architecture so good you put it on your advertisement.

Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For 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.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Join 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...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Housing 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...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Our Create Streets Foundation Gentle Density master class returns, better value than ever thanks to kind support from generous donors. In our beautiful office in Lambeth Walk. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

New 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?

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Read on here www.createstreets.com/wp-content/u...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

“After years of experimentation, Poundbury is becoming what the King and its designers always aspired for it: not a curiosity, but an excellent town.” “Not a sketch of the past but a hope for the future.”

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"One of the delightful things about walking around Poundbury is picking out which architect designed what. The excellent houses around Wadebridge Square have the unmistakable characteristics of John Simpson such as his signature Doric columns and unique proportions."

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

“There’s truly excellent urbanism in the early phases with many outstanding homes.” “You can see and feel the care that has gone into the public spaces and into how buildings relate to each other.”

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Create Streets' own Robert Kwolek recently visited Poundbury with his camera and "returned convinced that it is the best new place built in the UK in decades, bursting with lessons for a New Town programme.”

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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...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Our Create Streets Foundation Gentle Density master class returns, better value than ever thanks to kind support from generous donors. In our beautiful office in Lambeth Walk. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating_gen...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

New 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?

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Ps: this is Campo Sano Village in Florida designed by the effortlessly brilliant Duaney Plater-Zyberk

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We 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.

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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.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

How did we ban beauty by mistake? You can read our latest report Banning Beauty featured prominently in the @telegraph.co.uk

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

What 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.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

As 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

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

- Street Designer - Policy Specialist (Transport and Urban Design) View full role details here: createstreets.com/front-page-2... - Policy Specialist (Create Streets Foundation) View role here: createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/jobs/

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We'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:

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The best streets have enclosure & variety in a pattern.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Struggling 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/

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This 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...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The results? As with every Visual Preference Survey, it was clear. 📊 71% of respondents preferred the traditional alternative 📉 Only 21% chose the official design 🧍‍♂️ 8% weren’t sure This was a national sample. Not just local residents. Support was 100% consistent across income, gender and politics

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We tested two designs for Christ’s Lane: A. The official assertive proposal by Christ's College B. A contextual alternative, developed by Create Streets designed to respond to the patterns that most people find more humane, reassuring & pleasing

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

CAMBRIDGE: 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.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

At Create Streets we believe in structured, attractive, walkable places with real character. California Forever demonstrates that even today, one landowner + one vision + good infrastructure can lead to better outcomes. Policy can learn from this...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yes, the context in California is special: near the Bay Area, tons of investment, huge scale. But the underlying logic can apply in 🇬🇧: less about scale, more about ownership & ambition in planning the whole rather than just parts...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Why does this matter for the UK? Because the UK still struggles with fragmented land ownership and ad-hoc development. A single-owner or coordinated approach offers a way to “internalise the externalities” and build places that look & feel coherent, not just functional...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

... California Forever's new city is different. On one large site, it’s planning a gridded street network, perimeter-block urbanism, mingled uses, heavy industry segregated yet connected, segregated cycling lanes, transit-oriented layout & a strong design code rooted in local vernaculars.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Most modern British development happens in small parcels. That means each landowner focuses on their own plot & has little incentive to invest in shared infrastructure (streets, parks, drainage, public transport). The wider public goods get short-changed.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Historically, large landowners and “Great Estates”, solved this by internalising the externalities: they built networks of streets, parks & buildings in a unified way so the value of the whole increased: John Wood in Bath, Bedford Park or Mayfair in London, Le Vésinet in Paris...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

... in our latest blog, Create Streets fellow @scp-hughes.bsky.social explains how beauty in architecture and urbanism is a classic positive externality: the owner pays for it, but everyone benefits. Because markets don’t reward that benefit directly, beauty tends to be undersupplied...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Is 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 .... 🧵

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

...also saved by Historic England is the C17th Old School Coffee House, in Barnstaple, Devon, founded as a school for ‘20 poor maids’ in 1659, it is now transformed into affordable homes. The perfect example that we don't space, we need place. The greenest building already exists

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

What 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...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Much 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.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

…made possible by new trams on beds of grass 🚃and replete with cafes, shops & businesses as well as homes...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

…places to walk & cycle and civic pride (this is a new town hall)…

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

…this gorgeous and green Gentle Density with high levels of affordable housing...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our 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…

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

You can read our 7 ideas for curing these highway halves in our latest report 'A-road between us' here www.createstreets.com/projects/a-r...

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Many 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?

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New Gentle Density emerging in London. A lot is admirable here. Curves. Arches. Texture. Reeding. Implied pilasters. Slowly, pace by pace we are winning.

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Create Streets @createstreets.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

... 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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