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# ![@UrbanCourtyard Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1795606048767610881.png) @UrbanCourtyard Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist

Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist posts on X about copenhagen, stockholm, rome, euro the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/followers)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[copenhagen](/topic/copenhagen) #390, [stockholm](/topic/stockholm) #47, [rome](/topic/rome) #1259, [euro](/topic/euro) #1085, [york](/topic/york) 1.73%, [new york city](/topic/new-york-city) #978, [middle class](/topic/middle-class) #76, [countries](/topic/countries) #2352, [integration](/topic/integration) #84, [tokyo](/topic/tokyo) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Americans outside of legacy cities literally have no concept of a walkable and transit-served neighborhood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980359959486558705) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T19:46Z 13.7K followers, 6416 engagements


"Now Im hearing that Texans vote to pave over their cities in order to make it easier to car commute from their suburban pods to their asphalted urban cores. Is this true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980408123161747752) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T22:57Z 13.7K followers, 24K engagements


"Here is an intact historical Detroit block doing better than most. Some say this is inferior to suburban living because it is too dense. Others see it as a model of good dense urbanism. My view is that it lacks the density the commercial integration and the quality of public and private space that enable better city blocks to compete with suburban homes. People living here depend on cars and they don't have amenities within easy walking distance. If Detroit wants to re-urbanize more of the 4M people living in the Detroit metro suburbs it will have to come up with better urban fabric"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980463317052223967) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T02:37Z 13.7K followers, 1639 engagements


"@niccolo_medici They absolutely are. And also you just have less crime per capita when you have a ton of middle class people living in the city instead of in the burbs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980463872814510163) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T02:39Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Owing to building codes prohibiting flammable wood-frame construction courtyard blocks generally come in brick and/or stone sometimes with colorful stucco facades. Which do you prefer (depicted Copenhagen Stockholm Edinburgh)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978967922367181058) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-16T23:34Z 13.7K followers, 1517 engagements


"@homme_du_nord most new buildings in America tend to look that way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979993053793235029) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T19:28Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Maybe we need game developers to take over municipal planning departments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978083773850804424) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-14T13:01Z 13.7K followers, 79.4K engagements


"Talented Norwegian architecture student Oscar Oldery posted a master plan design project for a new courtyard block neighborhood in Bergen. It's excellent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979024419541414177) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T03:19Z 13.7K followers, 368.1K engagements


"In the past CITIES have dealt with private equity slop and housing crises by doing MASTER PLANNING: laying a street grid and establishing a building code to ensure that new development would promote neatness cleanliness air exchange and safety. In many cities the building code mandated airy courtyards 5-6 story height caps and masonry construction for attached buildings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980737534486323323) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T20:46Z 13.7K followers, 24.3K engagements


"When I was working on my doctorate i acquired bad academic writing habits like overusing inactive verb constructions and abstract nouns. My spouse (brilliant attorney) tore apart my dissertation drafts hounding me to use active voice verbs and to identify concrete subjects. The advice annoyed me tremendously but it improved my writing a lot. Active voice verbs. Concrete subjects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1976416742587916350) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-09T22:37Z 13.7K followers, 7408 engagements


"I wont make fun of the statues if your team gets behind building walkable urban neighborhoods with demographic range"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1976701234594955506) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-10T17:27Z 13.7K followers, 18K engagements


"Hey @alx if your team had as much creativity as I have in my little finger you would have already sent Elon to Mars to get rock for @Monumental_Labs to turn into a new obelisk to go on top an elephant (GOP) symbol playfully nodding to the famous Bernini statue in Piazza della Minerva which combines a stolen Egyptian obelisk and an elephant sculpture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1976725332192358838) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-10T19:03Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"I love statuary fountainsespecially ones that provide potable water like they do in Romebecause they are cooling and hydrating in addition to being beautiful and civic-minded. If were doing monuments I would unironically love to see an innovative stone interpretation of Washington crossing the Delaware in a public fountain context (like the barcaccia in Rome). You"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977141734824919210) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-11T22:38Z 13.7K followers, 12.5K engagements


"@jansramek @mspringut @Monumental_Labs Okay and then we need to be thinkingas a longer term goalwhat the American answer to the Trevi fountain will be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977188632114123107) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-12T01:44Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Which is the medieval city and which is an amusement park in Orlando Florida We know corporate America can build impressive buildings and infrastructure. But can US cities do the planning work necessary to enable popular medium-density neighborhoods Thats the big question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977865365788016702) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-13T22:33Z 13.7K followers, 9254 engagements


"Remember that Copenhagen the most livable city in the world is a love story to low-rise density and of using courtyards to balance density with green space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978427188216013038) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-15T11:46Z 13.7K followers, 13.8K engagements


"The Copenhagen skyline is pretty flat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978427200715051067) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-15T11:46Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Do the zoomers not know what columns are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978865030503207137) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-16T16:46Z 13.7K followers, 35K engagements


"The Munich building that got the face lift is in the upper righthand corner. From this aerial view we can see that it is likely a post-War building with double-loaded corridors. Do you see how much thicker it is that than the corner buildings to its left That's because it likely has a corridor running down the center of the building with small units on both sides of the corridor. This creates a larger building footprint takes up more of lot leaving less lot area for the rear courtyard. In contrast the buildings to its left are thinner and probably have some nice dual-aspect units. Also as you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978909928539722075) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-16T19:44Z 13.7K followers, 1086 engagements


"I'm all for enforcing laws (especially traffic laws) but the idea that aggressive law enforcement is necessary to entice suburban families back to US cities is implausible. Let's consider Vienna (large city demographically diverse very dense): Vienna has a MARKEDLY lower rate of violent crime than even our safest cities (NYC Boston SF etc.).* Vienna does NOT have aggressive policing. At all. Vienna DOES stand out as a city where middle-income households remain in the core thanks to family-friendly housing and walkable neighborhoods (it has courtyard urbanism).** What do you think would happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979178870688371114) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T13:33Z 13.7K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Oscar's courtyard block plan is a counterproposal to this . If you're in Bergen/Norway you might contact the city govt and tell them that you prefer the nice courtyard block proposal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979187786662937080) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T14:08Z 13.7K followers, 5355 engagements


"The vibe is so superior here. Why dont more architects do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979261763850813704) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T19:02Z 13.7K followers, 1027 engagements


"@markuskreitzer Mortgage rates here are extremely high"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979607078067925267) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T17:54Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"Its fine. People have been living in courtyard apartment since classical Rome. Its a really nice way to live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979624910050992386) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T19:05Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"If were ranking cities by ornamental fountains per capita Rome probably wins. If its by potable fountains per capita Rome certainly wins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979627162404872238) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T19:14Z 13.7K followers, 1847 engagements


"Instead of putting median islands in the middle of injuriously wide roads we should be putting skinny buildings like this (but X stories to avoid shadow)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979628249547456816) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T19:18Z 13.7K followers, 16.1K engagements


"@AITOUBI Middle income families of 4-5 dont live in high rise towers in Tokyo and Malaysia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979660852845555784) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T21:28Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Ravioli628 These were built during Europes population boom in the 19th century. Denmark has a fertility rate that is comparable to the US. Frances fertility rate is slightly higher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979709199119794305) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T00:40Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Swolan368565 This is an $11M condo in Stockholm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979761285345800472) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T04:07Z 13.7K followers, 1894 engagements


"@bendreyfuss But the author didnt write New York City suburb. They write NYC suburb. So an before the vowel sound in N is right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979893047514300602) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T12:51Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Hey anglophones the rule is that we use an before nouns beginning with a vowel SOUND (not necessarily a vowel) and we use a before nouns beginning with a consonant SOUND (not necessarily a consonant). So an hour a university an MTA worker (the word MTA begins with the vowel sound eh) an NYC suburb (the word NYC begins with the vowel sound eh)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979918546613293370) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T14:32Z 13.7K followers, 24.9K engagements


"@prewarpierre It is a take based on respect for standard English usage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979951558642290728) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T16:43Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@ty5t1e That would be an incorrect suggestion. We read acronyms as acronyms and words as words"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979963163782041662) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T17:29Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@crum4519 The printer would have printed New York City if they wanted readers to read that. They clearly meant NYC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979975863119585716) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T18:20Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Lib_Development Tell me about the middle class Chinese families of 4-5 that live in high rise towers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979982263941988432) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T18:45Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"THANK YOU for sharing your concerns about my shadow comment. I am pro-shadow which is why I am constantly promoting street walls of 4-6 stories on narrow streets (check out both the shadowed street and the sunny courtyard in the Florence block below). If you're developing median parcels in an area like Manhattan you probably don't need to worry about shadows. Because no one has gardens that need solar access anyway and the people living on lower levels apparently don't have the expectation of daylight in their units. But I have in mind a medium-rise city--like Florence Copenhagen Prague"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979982637386142181) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T18:47Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Hey sorry I missed this earlier. The relationship between housing and fertility is really complex. France which has more apartments and is far denser than the US has a higher fertility rate than the US. Denmark which is even more urbanized has a fertility rate that is only a little lower than the US. Remember also that the bigger US homes have gotten and the more we have suburbanized the lower are fertility rate has fallen. In other words I don't think that adding family-friendly density to US cities will hurt US fertility. It might make it better just by making children more visible in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979986489925611913) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T19:02Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@RezabekA @Pontifex So many notable Chicagoans in Rome these days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980000033639375206) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T19:56Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@__b__ris It wouldnt have done everything else the same because it would have had a city center densely populated with middle class families making political decisions in their interest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980021079625421098) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T21:19Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@AgileJebrim @heavenly_otter Texan civilization looks like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980357137231671434) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T19:35Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@jaketropolis @BacklashRC My kids like to walk to their friends houses and play at the park. I like seeing friends going out attending events being involved in my local parish and community I couldnt maintain my social and cultural activities if I lived in the suburbs or country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980388757141643281) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T21:40Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Halcy0nDays_ Compare Chicago block interior with Copenhagen block interior (Copenhagen has done a FAR better job at retaining families and population)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980394239923302469) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T22:02Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@BaccmaConsult The right. Do you want to check"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980410038247432304) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T23:05Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@__b__ris You think it would have those problems if they had planned for mixed use multifamily perimeter blocks targeting middle and upper middle class families"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980012286539415629) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T20:44Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@domlzz Stockholm I know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980028778660389234) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T21:50Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Justanxxxalt @QuotesLacan We use our car 2x a week as a family of X. Husband takes train to office. Kids walk to school and activities. All of our shopping and friends are in the neighborhood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980306195358654620) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T16:12Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Krombopulous2 @thefuzzybastard You can follow at @jasonc_nc to find out about the smarter cheaper and safer fire trucks and emergency vehicles used in countries with better and safer road systems. Shifting to smaller less expensive vehicle vehicles is the solution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980355278353912093) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T19:27Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@AgileJebrim @heavenly_otter Drive-everywhere ghetto where teens have nothing to do except get into weird online subcultures. You have to travel a long way outside of Texas however to find anything resembling a desirable urban area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980363431204282392) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T20:00Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@UmarQadmiri I have heard that said. I dont really believe it. Urban planning takes a lot of civic competence and will and I think we just lost that at a municipal level after World War II. Frankly in Europe as well as in the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980365050151154135) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T20:06Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@bowelsinspector @phenomenalogram Oh yes all the middle class families in Cicero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980408334986670479) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T22:58Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@retro_futurist_ You havent been paying attention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980446161610895485) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T01:28Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"A commenter replies that Americans and Europeans actually prefer wide roads to narrow roads. Setting aside subjective preferences which road do you think has higher property values and lower pedestrian fatality rates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980348844199276717) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T19:02Z 13.7K followers, 8710 engagements


"When Im mayor we will have arcades everywhere And courtyard blocks of course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980429455425434102) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T00:22Z 13.7K followers, 2869 engagements


"@CCGordon33 @AgileJebrim There arent any nice urban neighborhoods in Texas so Texans dont even know whats possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980619351792447557) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T12:57Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The unusually high construction cost per square foot for low-rise buildings is why its so challenging to build missing middle (which is essential to walkable neighborhoods with broad demographic appeal). Again creating a master plan that pre-approves 4-6 story buildings that meet xyz form requirements would streamline the process and reduce costs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980774469036646734) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T23:13Z 13.7K followers, 4569 engagements


"It would be very beneficial to legalize the core stairwell with the cage elevator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978443614532374568) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-15T12:51Z 13.7K followers, 93.4K engagements


"The small-lot multifamily buildings mean that you can have large dual-aspect units that live like a house with a front and a back appealing to a range of households"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979590984083366219) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T16:50Z 13.7K followers, 15.5K engagements


"Heres a sample of the real estate on Hudson Boulevard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980350416337740090) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T19:08Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"A opinion piece in yesterdays NYT discusses modern parents who find community in multi-unit households. Parents desperately want community and support networks that thanks to Hillary Clinton we often associate with the obsolete settlement type of a village. But most parents dont want multi-unit households or villages. They want a multi-generational NEIGHBORHOOD with good school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980780095842156611) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T23:35Z 13.7K followers, 1656 engagements


"Narrowing roads (DOTs ceding ROW to adjacent property owners) is one easy way to create more buildable land in cities (while also improving pedestrian safety). Also the airspace above roads poses some interesting ownership and development questions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977096464255132021) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-11T19:38Z 13.7K followers, 6913 engagements


"I was at a neighborhood meeting this week where we discussed how to address low-level criminal activity (walking dogs off leash traffic violations littering etc.) that the police and aldermen fail to respond to. (The law says offenders should be ticketed.) One idea is posting signs reminding everyone of The Rules (like the sign below from a Barcelona campaign) PROBABLY the offenders wont care but Posted Rules might encourage and embolden bystanders to take censorious action when they see someone walking their dog off leash running a stop sign littering leaving bread out for pigeons etc."  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977213228389196003) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-12T03:22Z 13.7K followers, 13K engagements


"@draecomino Theyre doing dense walkable neighborhoods that are modeled after some of the best urban neighborhoods in the world including the courtyard block neighborhoods of Copenhagen. You can read more about the project"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978423912925991198) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-15T11:33Z 13.7K followers, 4582 engagements


"Impossible according to American regulators and trolls replying to single stair posts but retrofitting stairwells with elevators has not led to increased fire causalities in Haussmann buildings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978533830425231371) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-15T18:49Z 13.7K followers, 35.7K engagements


"Pretty soon everyone is talking about doing courtyard blocks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979207046760186255) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T15:25Z 13.7K followers, 25K engagements


"Half of my work here is educating zoomers about basic parenting needs (eg yard access) and real estate values (eg difference between median income housing and UHNW income housing)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979924646196605075) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T14:56Z 13.7K followers, 20.6K engagements


"Yeah Im realizing that the big difference between 19th century euro city planning and American city planning was that the euro plannersat least in Scandinavian and Germany and Scotlandall required green area. They allowed developers to go up higher but would only let them cover half the lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980087324751921657) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T01:43Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@_quodvultdeus @ErikBootsma France has a higher fertility rate than the US. Most euro countries have fertility rates that are similar to the US. The US fertility rate has cratered as weve added suburbs and bigger homes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980093081425747975) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T02:05Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@_quodvultdeus @ErikBootsma Yeah you obviously havent been paying attention to my arguments and also have no clue what New Orleans looks like if you think it in any way resembles Munich (depicted above)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980093521152655688) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T02:07Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@tnertz Yeah it would be interesting to see a plan that allowed developers to build to new lot like that extended 10-15 further into the ROW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980105089093181851) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T02:53Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"That just sounds very foreign to me. I dont know any kids 2-11 who are content to just stay inside. Mine definitely are not. Maybe only children who dont have siblings and are used to quiet self-entertainment Theres also a parenting culture here that prioritizes outside unstructured play and tries to keep kids off screens/gaming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980116625131962809) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T03:39Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


""Only high crime could have driven Americans out of dense walkable urban fabric like this." 🙄"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980456576365523198) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T02:10Z 13.7K followers, 1441 engagements


"@andyswain5 Yeah my project is making Americans aware of forms of family-friendly density that are commonly found in Euro city centers. Towers drive families out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980456847065940418) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T02:11Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Nemtastic1 @wil_da_beast630 Euro cities are a lot greener than American cities. And London. They also have better multifamily buildings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980468136978911675) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T02:56Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@eichenmeer Oh thanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980746325609042254) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T21:21Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements


"@quantumdaybreak @severino205 @karlbykarlsmith @niccolo_medici There are countless low land value high crime neighborhoods that have become safe and valuable through development and investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980844678174892465) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-22T03:52Z 13.7K followers, X engagements


"New substack articles is up. Link below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1973196179291918610) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-01T01:20Z 13.7K followers, 16.8K engagements


"Haussmanns renovation of Paris was a city-led master plan situation where Napoleon III gave urban planner Haussmann full authority over building new streets and sanitation AND a form-based code: small-lot mixed-use mult-family buildings rising 4-6 stories tall built wall to wall so they form solid street walls and coherent blocks The city provided good infrastructure AND GOOD CODE; the private builders built it out. It also helped that paris sits on top of the limestone quarries that supply the (naturally fire-resistant) stone used to build the single-stair buildings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1976017881294045539) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-08T20:12Z 13.7K followers, 450.9K engagements


"Why are Swedish cities so great the national building code that applied during the period of heavy construction activity required (among other things) that the area of the courtyard be at least XX% of the lots building footprint"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977115742803050540) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-11T20:55Z 13.7K followers, 20.7K engagements


"Both of these are centrally planned neighborhoods. The quality of the plan matters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977706886737650067) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-13T12:04Z 13.7K followers, 165.1K engagements


"People will give you allll kinds of reasons to explain why families live in the urban cores of European cities (like Munich left) but not in the urban cores of US cities (like LA right) but I am here to tell you that this is XXX% an urban planning/architecture difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979589530471845982) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T16:44Z 13.7K followers, 45.4K engagements


"If you do walkable mixed-use neighborhoods you dont need to asphalt everything over for cars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979624024792822267) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-18T19:02Z 13.7K followers, 17.4K engagements


"and WHY do we love narrow streets so much Because we unconsciously perceive wide streets like the Swedish cartoonist Karl Jilg does here: extremely perilous space especially for young children. Very narrow streets mean slow vehicle speeds smaller vehicles maybe people using golf carts instead of carts . safe slow transport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980017815701815351) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-19T21:06Z 13.7K followers, 113.1K engagements


"Oh so your position is that crime not urban planning determines whether families live in urban cores or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980387495268479193) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-20T21:35Z 13.7K followers, 48.2K engagements


"No one actually prefers buses to these"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980428883041349785) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T00:20Z 13.7K followers, 64.8K engagements


"Turin (left) is a compact 50-square-mile city of 850000 people. Its often compared to Detroit (right) which sprawls across XXX square miles with a population of 650000. Both were once hubs of their nations automobile industries. Only Detroit allowed car-oriented development to totally trash its urban core"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980444342293565638) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T01:21Z 13.7K followers, 9805 engagements


"a developer actually tried to build a courtyard mega-development in downtown Detroit. Sadly its now in receivership after defaulting on an $XX million loan . If City Club Apartments had worked with @HIUConsulting they might have pursued a small-lot incremental plan instead a plan that could have been built in phases with greater diversity in building and unit types ownership models and sensitivity to evolving local market conditions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980448406913826990) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T01:37Z 13.7K followers, 1180 engagements


"This one is so funny because he managed to piss off 1) the people who are triggered by Greco Roman culture 2) the people who need to see visibly affordable housing (we know its affordable when its so homely that only a hard YIMBY could love it) 3) the AI haters Im lightly triggered by the lack of commercial integration and coherent street wall/block structure. But I am mostly amused by the projection of forum imagery onto what appears to be a residential neighborhood. The forum was public buildingslike temples and city halls and judicial buildings. Not sure how it would transfer to residential"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980484312433631470) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T04:00Z 13.7K followers, 5371 engagements


"public transit will never be high when we build our society for car convenience People use public transit more in other countries and in New York City not because they are intrinsically more prosocial and law abiding in those places but because they have dense walkable neighborhoods that conduce to public transit and not to car commuting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980613932948631926) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T12:35Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Stockholm: XX story apartment buildings enclosing shared internal courtyards promoting walkability greenery and mixed-use boulevards. The area expanded from the 1870s as upscale tenements under the 1874 National Building Code which capped heights at street width plus 1.5m (typically 2022m or X stories) and mandated airy courtyards. Blocks are usually 100200m long and 50100m wide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980657257978171526) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T15:27Z 13.7K followers, 6150 engagements


"Courtyard blocks are Californias missing middle for the climate era: dense enough to meet housing goals green enough to meet environmental requirements and humane enough to build public support. Also courtyard typology draws on Californias Mediterranean and Mission traditions . so it's a good aesthetic and cultural fit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980676743263580279) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T16:45Z 13.7K followers, 8362 engagements


"Oh you have to satisfy an equitable development and affordable housing mandate Courtyard blocks mix rental and ownership market-rate and affordable units within one block. And parcelization allows small builders to build out the blocks incrementally diversifying ownership and reducing speculation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980732011678736718) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T20:24Z 13.7K followers, 1007 engagements


"Oslo courtyard blocks -- 9-12 mediumish buildings framing a central courtyard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980733395161202979) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T20:30Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"This was built as worker housing in Sodermalm a working class neighborhood of Stockholm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980737885763403885) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T20:48Z 13.7K followers, 1935 engagements


"People dislike buses because 1) the lurching and jolting motion is literally nauseating (I get motion sickness) 2) the foul-smelling diesel exhaust is gross 3) they are extremely noisy 4) BRT is used to rationalize wide roads when we should be narrowing them ceding more urban land area to pedestrian uses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980753212945875261) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-21T21:49Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Vidstigningen Agree its tragic. Its fascinating to me that even cities with this tradition stopped building new ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1980849301803921761) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-22T04:10Z 13.7K followers, XX engagements