Create Streets Foundation

Join us this year for the @CreateStreetsFN 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! createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-place… #summerschool #architecture #urbandesign

The functionalist fallacy has done and is doing brutal damage to the joy, beauty and liveability of our cities and to the public's acceptance of growth and development. Don't believe the 'design is subjective' nonsense. It's not. What people like is highly predictable & is ...

🚨The deadline for our early bird discount is fast approaching (April 1st!) You can secure your place here createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-place…

Every single building in this photo was rebuilt after catastrophic wartime destruction. Cities don’t need to be faceless.

It’s time to go back to the future for our collective health, hope & happiness

Discreet border treatment, and it doesn’t have to be taller than ankle height, can significantly improve the appearance of planting areas. An easy win.

This looks splendid. The gospel of walkable Gentle Density is spreading and spreading and spreading....

@CityVoicEd Lubyanka loveless ? KGB Performative ?

If you like this and fancy beautiful architecture, do come to the much loved @CreateStreetsFN summer school which takes place around the corner from here. The final exhibition hopefully will be in the abbey (being confirmed!) but hurry…

Will @GlasgowCC have the courage to push to Build it Back ? @PaulJSweeney

How heartbreaking. Glasgow’s beautiful city centre desperately needs love. If I understand correctly, this is Union Corner, the pre-railway Victorian building which has catastrophically burnt down overnight…

Modern bicycles were invented at almost the same time as the motor car but they affected towns and transport far, far more quickly, as our report, Move Free ..

Just under half the places are taken. Hurry, hurry, hurry if you want to secure the reduced “early bird” rate …

Let's make the future better than the past. Do get in touch if you would like us to help you create Gentle Density new places and steward old ones to be happier, healthier, more prosperous and more beautiful...

This video shouid be mandatory for all involved in delivering housing in @DeptHousingIRL and local authorities. And I am not saying that just because I have lived in France and seen it work in practice or (even before some wisecrack says it) have been knighted by the French govt.

It was a great pleasure to welcome architects, students, surveyors & community leaders into our office today for the latest ⁦@CreateStreetsFN⁩ Gentle Density Master Class

🚨Early-bird discount ends 1 April 2026, so book soon to secure the reduced rate! Want to learn how to design streets, squares and neighbourhoods that people truly love? Join us for our Urban Design & Architecture Summer School. createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-place…

How do we create streets that are good for places & for people, supportive of more homes & can actually get adopted. Come to our latest lunchtime webinar to find out. It’s literally a free intellectual lunch as you munch your sandwich! What have you got to lose? Most council’s housing targets have doubled. NPPF updates have introduced new transport rules: vision-led planning, changing parking standards, continuous pavement references, placemaking guidance & pavement parking bans. Pressure on local authorities to deliver more & better housing schemes has never been higher. Yet, housing & transport remain trapped in separate silos, despite being two sides of the same coin. This fragmentation creates conflict at the finish line, where planning visions clash with technical adoption standards, leading to delays, cost increases & compromised street quality. Our next lunchtime webinar seeks to bridge that gap, offering voices who are delivering streets from vision to adoption. Streets that are functional & emotional. We will provide examples of how to lock in quality at scale be it navigating the technicalities of continuous footways, the "Asphalt vs. Block Paving" maintenance debate or the pathway from planning consent to highway adoption. 🎟️ Sign up to join for free here: tickettailor.com/events/creates…

Every single time. Car domination makes city centres poorer not more prosperous. The data is very consistent. You don’t necessarily need to or should ban them, but you do need to put people first in all or nearly all streets.