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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, rome, instead of, euro the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1799 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [countries](/list/countries)  [currencies](/list/currencies)  [finance](/list/finance) 

**Social topic influence**
[copenhagen](/topic/copenhagen) #330, [rome](/topic/rome) #975, [instead of](/topic/instead-of) #135, [euro](/topic/euro) #933, [middle class](/topic/middle-class) #144, [nyc](/topic/nyc), [stockholm](/topic/stockholm) #258, [york](/topic/york), [rates](/topic/rates) #191, [florence](/topic/florence)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1795606048767610881/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Post your fave Chicago Public Park Our is Welles Park with baseball diamonds pickleball court tennis horseshoes nature play area playground pool and fitness facility and this fabulous gazebo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1977429512909627554) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-12T17:41Z 13.7K followers, 1842 engagements


"@RRawiensky Its a Medici Palazzo in Florence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979157782113743247) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T12:09Z 13.6K followers, XX engagements


"Yes thats the statistical point. But Im also making the point that having a large population of middle class families adds more eyes on the street and more concerned parents who are likely to be engaged in community engagement and contacting authorities if they are safety issues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979200745661517920) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T15:00Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@_caswel No . these are in Canada Prague and Bergen. The biggest news in US courtyard block discourse is the @CAForever @jansramek project which plans to include courtyard blocks (details forthcoming)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979228932051280371) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T16:52Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@WaywardRabbler Where is Palouse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979323746289881433) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T23:08Z 13.7K followers, 2519 engagements


"@missmayn Are there doubts about that site"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1978217366010933285) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-14T21:52Z 13.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@DCCarViolence Norway but point taken"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979180323708502463) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T13:38Z 13.7K followers, 1943 engagements


"Best recent public project in the Chicago River Walk and its not close. At all. Because the river walk does what ALL urban public spaces should do: mix outdoor space with commercial space. High Line fails to mix uses thus failing at the purpose of urban organization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1973088223493489115) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-09-30T18:11Z 13.7K followers, 340.5K engagements


"Dont talk to me about the High Line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1975654853314515409) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-07T20:09Z 13.7K followers, 578.8K engagements


"Most Americans dislike apartment buildings because they associate them with low-income housing projects and with luxury megadevelopments (both lacking lacking income diversity yard access dual-aspect units and commercial integration). The country* has never had a strong tradition of small-lot mixed-use multifamily buildings that provides a "big house with a yard" for the middle income people in the city. As American awareness of courtyard blocks increases expect to see more Americans DEMANDING new courtyard block districts in their cities. *NYC is an exception but even its best perimeter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1976369642198179846) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-09T19:30Z 13.7K followers, 12.6K 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, 4571 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


"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, 1500 engagements


"@hogpopsicle Assuming its comparable to the Grunnerloka neighborhood in Oslo it would be around 33000 people per square mile"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979159492106326487) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T12:16Z 13.7K followers, 2301 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


"@lancethepants23 Im in Chicago and every day think how much easier it would be to parent and live if we had a green park in our block interiors instead of alleys with trash and garages. Chicago versus Copenhagen block interiors left and right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1979309714531061808) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-10-17T22:13Z 13.7K followers, XXX 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


"@__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


"@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


"@_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


"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


"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


"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, 79.1K 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


"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, 45.2K 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


"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


"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, 107.9K 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


"@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, XX 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


"@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


"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


"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, 6909 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


"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


"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, 13.7K 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


"@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


"@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


"@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


"@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 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


"@_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


"@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


"@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


"@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, X 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, 15.4K 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


"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


"@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


"I strongly disagree with this. Its in our DNA to use our intelligence and other abilities to get food and resources from our environment which is always changing. I have zero interest in homesteading farming or even gardening. I do enjoy cooking and parenting but i love the labor-saving technologies that allow me to spend more time on hobbies such as social media posting exercise etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/UrbanCourtyard/status/1969514346318610498) [@UrbanCourtyard](/creator/x/UrbanCourtyard) 2025-09-20T21:29Z 13.7K followers, XX 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, 16.5K 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


"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


"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, 93.3K 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, 35.6K 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


"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, 365.7K 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


"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, 17.3K 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


"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, 6392 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


"@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


"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, 4468 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, 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


"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, 13.9K 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, XXX 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, 450.4K 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


"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, 31.6K 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, 2024 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, 3297 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, XXX 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, 2403 engagements