How To Make Cities Beautiful Again: 7 Design Secrets

Head to to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code THEAESTHETICCITY ---- Want to learn more about how to create beautiful, livable places? Join the waitlist for our course! 👉 --- 🌱🌳 The Dutch greenery company, Blooming Buildings, did NOT sponsor this video. However, they deserve a shout out to their amazing work! Find more info about them at their website: ---- How do we make beautiful cities? In this video, we look at 7 principles urbanists use to create livable, beautiful cities. We dive into matters like greenery, gentle density, attractive traditional architecture, pedestrianization and urban form, which are all factors that lead to attractive urban experiences. We’d love to hear what you think: is this enough to create beautiful, livable cities, or did we miss some things? ---- ✨ Subscribe to our substack: @theaestheticcity?utm_source=profile-page 🎙️ Listen to our podcast: 💪🏽 Support this channel by becoming a patron:   𝕏 Follow us on X: 🗣️ Join the community on Discord:  💻 Visit our website: —- Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:55 Design Secret 1: Gentle Density 3:24 Design Secret 2: Attractive Public Spaces 4:47 Design Secret 3: Green & Water 6:36 Design Secret 4: Pedestrian & Cyclist friendly 7:58 Design Secret 5: Mixed use Development 9:00 Design Secret 6: Urban Form 9:50 Design Secret 7: Pleasant Architecture 11:28 Conclusion ---- Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission if you click on them and make a purchase. This comes at no additional cost to you and helps support the channel. 🎥 Video equipment I used: Sony A7siii - Sony - FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS Sony Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 Ronin RS 3 - Apple Macbook Pro M1 Max Røde Wireless Go II 📖 Favourite Urbanism & Architecture Books Léon Krier: The Architecture of Community - Nir Buras: The Art of Classic Planning - Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Vitruvius Pollio: The Ten Books on Architecture - Charles Montgomery: Happy City - Malcolm Millais: Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture - James Stevens Curl: Making Dystopia - Branko Mitrovic: Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud - Tom Wolfe: From Bauhaus to Our House - ------ ©️ Copyright info: - [855813] / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - Fotodienst GAU, fotograaf - CC BY 4.0 - Het Utrechts Archief - beelden Hoog Catharijne, Utrecht Centraal, Singel