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These too are new. No rule of physics or economics forbids us from creating beautiful places. The architect, Sebastian Treese, exquisitely varies each home within a clear rhythms: colours, window shapes, the presence (or not) of a bay or use of shutters all alternate like rhyming
This too is new. Every tree & terrace of it. The future can be better than the past if we dare to mingle historic patterns with modern capacities
Those lovely street lamps 
. Similar to the ones we have in Kensington
. Similar to the ones we have in KensingtonWe’ve just put something similar in a design code we’ve written for a council.
Plessis Robinson. Even better down the road is Clamart. Rich with beauty, Parisian forms, a state school that puts any modern British school to shame and generous greenery and water. Very few British developers would dare create somewhere so loveable. And very councils would let
This is the way. Restore what has been destroyed, and make new work that celebrates what should have been built before our culture was subverted by the “globalists”.
Would this comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act? Are the sidewalks wide enough? Curb cuts, etc?
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Look up Carmel, IN and how they designed around the Monon Trail. Gives these elements & also hides "the suck" really well.
The suck:
Trash
Parking
Emergency vehicle access
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We can see it is very new. The walls have not been tagged yet and the plants have not died yet
Modernism has won, because in this picture there's neither ornamentation nor displays of craftmanship. Just prefab with different colours and shapes.
No cycling paths although it seems like the street is slow enough to provide safe cycling. Still dumb
The technology is there - even if the expertise from builders is gone - to recreate every building that exists.
Why can't we rebuild every Victorian/Georgian building the council have knocked down or property developers have set on fire?
And what is good about it is that there are no poles with overhead wires or obtrusive signage destroying the streetscape.
Translated from German
Mediterranean European cities are designed for strolling. The streets are lively and the people mill about. It is chaotic and aimless. Life is disorganized. All of this lends a charm and an energy that the rational Northern European yearns for.
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