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#20 - Nicholas Boys Smith, CreateStreets: Utrecht, Creating Happy Places, Achieving Beauty, Gentle Density & Good Urbanism

#20 - Nicholas Boys Smith, CreateStreets: Utrecht, Creating Happy Places, Achieving Beauty, Gentle Density & Good Urbanism

FromThe Aesthetic City


#20 - Nicholas Boys Smith, CreateStreets: Utrecht, Creating Happy Places, Achieving Beauty, Gentle Density & Good Urbanism

FromThe Aesthetic City

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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Sep 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Nicholas Boys Smith is founder of CreateStreets, an organisation that exists to help solve the housing crisis and that aims to help actors such as developers, landowners, councils and neighbourhoods to create more beautiful, sustainable places. The places that CreateStreets envisions are of gentle density, popular, and with high probability correlated with good wellbeing and public health outcomes. With a great body of research, CreateStreets can make a strong case for the benefits of these places and has actually achieved considerable impact in the UK.
Learn more on their website: https://www.createstreets.com/
Buy 'Heart in the Right Street' on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Right-Street-happiness-designing/dp/0993569811/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UYKL6E5VJ930&keywords=heart+in+the+right+street&qid=1662816298&sprefix=heart+in+the+right+street%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1
View 'What Makes for Happy Places' on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B1k5HLb-aqQ 
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Released:
Sep 15, 2022
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