Paseo Cayalá in Guatemala is a new development masterplanned by Léon Krier and designed by Estudio Urbano, a Guatemalan architecture firm spearheaded by Maria Sánchez and Pedro Pablo Godoy. It has been criticised, but why - and is that justified? A short thread 🧵

Accessory Commercial Units should be allowed on street corners in every neighborhood, but with no off-street parking allowed. This will naturally limit them to a size supportable by walk-up customers and those parking on the street. They will naturally pop up on busier corners.

But of course…. The privileged Perth driver thinks that the new protected bike lanes on Roe st are for them! #CarCulture ht, Perth’s Worst Drivers fb.

Mansion blocks by Francis Verity (1864-1937). R, eleven storeys with 100% plot coverage, is a particularly striking illustration of how gently density can be integrated into urban fabric. Detailed in the elegant, French-influenced manner that became fashionable in the 1900s.

By putting all the emphasis on end-to-end speed, as politicians often do, and by responding to local govts shortsighted push for "freeing the city from the rail barrier", the new alignment has made the connection to the harbor, the gateway to the Eolian islands, very inconvenient

Join us for our first Good Urbanism talk of 2023, ‘The Beautiful and the Banned’, with Eric Denholm on Zoom. Planners, architect, students and the general public all welcome. We’ll be using examples from Perth but this is relevant all over. tickettailor.com/events/streetl…

If regular businesses treated their consumers like starchitects treat people #1 ⁠— MÖRT INSEKT. You wouldn't understand.

How does this happen? We know what intimate, beautiful and walkable places look like, but in new developments, we fail to match even the lowest standards of our predecessors. This is partly due to a failure of imagination and investment limitations in low-density areas, but it

Watch the Street Level Australia video below for a study on street design and where things may have veered off track; to a point where they're vastly different to how we like to convey them in cultural references. 📺Video: lnkd.in/dqxas9Ux Taylor Burrell Barnett 🚶🚶🚶

Good urbanism is best measured by character, not metrics. You can find sidewalks of this exact width in places nobody ever walks. Density can be awesome or awful, as can any other commonly-used urban metric. Metrics are for spreadsheets; human eyes are better evaluators.

The most successful, vibrant cities in the world today look a whole lot like they did a hundred years ago. We know what works. We just need to get to work.

Architecture is a public, vernacular, background art. Lots of people create it, and everyone lives in it involuntarily. This generates duties to build in approachable, accessible ways that can be appreciated by the broadest possible public. My case in: worksinprogress.co/issue/making-a…

Amount of the world’s population living in global poverty 200 years ago: 90% Now: 8-9% Generally, humanity is much better off today than at any point in our past, says Steven Pinker #GZEROWorld youtube.com/watch?v=VLPVL9…

Modern man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the old world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it.

‘Articulation’ ….

When people ask why we no longer build "traditional architecture", the answer is rarely about aesthetics — few people say traditional architecture is ugly. Rather, the response is that we simply cannot afford to, or it is impractical, or we don't have the necessary expertise.

If you want to build a good neighborhood school, don't follow state law, which is based on auto domination, not neighborhood schools: originalgreen.org/blog/neighborh…

Thread on the real life locations that inspired famous paintings 🧵 1. Café Terrace at Night by Van Gogh

Thread of the most beautiful train stations on Earth 🧵 1. Antwerp, Belgium