2/ Daniel nails the reason to care about urban design, but it's also important to care about beauty in everything. Beauty is a necessary facet of human enjoyment. It's every bit as important as the other qualities urbanists & advocates talk about.
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3/ Without beauty in a place, people will very quickly abandon it for the next shiny object. With beauty, people fight for a place for generations. Simply building anew doesn't help long-term success. Jane Holtz Kay used to describe "cities rebuilt vs cities reborn."
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4/ And if you care about cities and place-making, your view should always be with one eye on the long-term, too.
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5/ Beauty and ugliness are both cumulative. When you get enough ugliness, it's overwhelming and depressing, even if you have a place to live. You'll look to leave it if possible.
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6/ And it's not like we haven't been down this road before or had "crises" before. The most recent one was after WWII, where we had a huge need for housing. And what we built in that era was mostly very regrettable, and a huge amount was torn down quickly
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7/ This is not to say we shouldn't have urgency in building housing in places that need it. We absolutely should. Empowering people and markets to be able to build more for themselves is one of the surest ways to achieve that aim, which is why regulatory reform is so important
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8/ But to throw up our hands and say design isn't important, or beauty doesn't matter - we should be careful what we wish for. We'll simply be creating the next crisis, albeit of a different flavor.
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Good thread. And, in response to the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" critics, I think there is much more consensus about built-environment beauty than they claim. Many public surveys have revealed a pretty broad consensus.
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You are correct - comes out in every survey I've ever seen.
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