{"id":345565,"date":"2025-08-15T03:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345565\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:49:35","slug":"lets-be-honest-london-is-no-longer-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345565\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s be honest, London is no longer beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, \u2018doubt\u2019. We\u2019re told that beauty is in the eye of beholder, that one man\u2019s modernism is another another\u2019s Palladianism. The facts disagree. Over ten years, the social enterprise I founded, Create Streets, has developed a rigorous methodology for visual preference surveys. Across countries, political views and age groups, super majorities (typically 70-80%) consistently favour buildings that show care, coherence and a sense of place: local materials, depth and detail, symmetry, variety within a pattern. Not formless chaos but not sterile \u2018spreadsheet architecture\u2019 either. In an era of division, beautiful places can unite us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finally, \u2018doubt\u2019. We\u2019re told that beauty is in the eye of beholder, that one man\u2019s modernism is another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,4022,12495,393,4884,6084,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-345565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-design","10":"tag-development","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-infrastructure","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115030744431176254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}