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Design practice, town-builder, think tank. Master-planning, design codes, research, co-creating popular, beautiful, durable Gentle Density. @CreateStreetsFN
London
Joined December 2012
RT @boys_nicholas: I am sincerely pleased that over the last 20 years London has built thousands of new homes along the Thames at Nine Elms….
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From Post Office to pub. What will it be 50 years hence? Who knows? But it will still be here. Attractive buildings recycle. Ugly buildings get thrown away.
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RT @shepherdmg: The bells were an excellent added extra at the summer school, consider it for next year if you're interested in shaping you….
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Students at the @CreateStreetsFN Summer School get a side order in traditional bell ringing in beautiful Sherborne …
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Everything in these photos is new. The greatest single act of place making & the best Gentle Density in Britain since the war.
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Ugly buildings are not sustainable . Ugly buildings are not sustainable. Ugly buildings are not sustainable. Ugly buildings are not sustainable.
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@shepherdmg @CreateStreetsFN @ADAMarchitectur … here’s a second year architecture student creating a street …
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@shepherdmg @CreateStreetsFN @ADAMarchitectur … everyone is working (and teaching) late into the evening on the @CreateStreetsFN summer school …
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@shepherdmg @CreateStreetsFN @ADAMarchitectur … our penultimate day is very much heads down. No more lectures but LOTS of drawing & design for the final presentation…
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RT @tomough: Elite oikophobia doesn’t always have to win. In fact, its victories can still be reversed.
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Why it matters creating places in which it’s natural & joyful & safe to walk & move & cycle.
5/ Myth: Your genes decide everything. Genetics matter. But Lieberman says:. “Genes load the gun. Environment pulls the trigger.”. Your choices—movement, food, sleep, mindset—shape your health far more than you think:
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RT @ikeijeh: One wonders if the citizens of London had been given a vote, which vision of contemporary London we would have voted for. (Fo….
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The Italy which created Florence was infinitely poorer in treasure & technology than we are. And yet.
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The re-stitching and rebuilding of Dresden is one of the great stories of European civilisation of the last 20 years, staggeringly little known in Britain. All driven by popular preferences in the face of architectural resistance.
Dresden. Every building pictured dates from the last twenty years, the result of a 2002 municipal referendum in which the city decisively voted in favour of reconstructing its historic centre.
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RT @tomhfh: We mandate insane things, of use to no one, and it only makes homes more difficult to build. Afuera.
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. & new gov could (legitimately) have blamed the last gov. More here:
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Why oh why has @mtpennycook not ditched previous gov’s mad new Part O window regs which make houses uglier outside, less pleasant inside & slightly more expensive. They’ve created a windows apartheid between prosperous areas (which get round them) & poor areas which cannot….
UK planning rules are insanely bureaucratic about things people *don't* want. Visited a new build today. In the *same room* one window has don't-jump-out bars (whyyyy) but the other doesn't, due to random building regs madness. (1/2)
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@shepherdmg @CreateStreetsFN @ADAMarchitectur … before the sun fades in the slow summer evening over beautiful Sherborne…
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