They build them to complement eachother without having the look of being copy pasted, each building has a unique but cohesive look. I love it. :D

All we get here are Wimpy identikit boxes that look cheap and out of place everywhere.

Si, si pero luego todos los británicos se vienen a veranear a Italia o España.😂

I blame the developers, not the architects. The developers set the budget and the project parameters. Architects then only have tiny number of options. And I also blame the entire planning system.

@@user-zj9tl5tr2o Yeah, a lot of problems with modern urbanism aren't completely the fault of architects. They're not blameless, but developers and government regularly tie their hands with requirements and regulations that boil down to "fill this plot of land with as many standardised homes as possible, in the fastest, cheapest manner possible". There's little room for architects to do anything, because the entire system is centred around meeting quotas and making money, and no one making the decision cares what happens after the homes are filled. Honestly reminds me of the commie-blocks of the USSR and Warsaw Pact. Similar mentality, similar problems.

Feels kind of dead and creepy to me

@@lour8237 Yes, somewhere with a small population on a rainy, cold day might look slightly empty. Wonder why?

Only wealthy people can afford this place................

Isn’t beauty a place where birds sing? . This is just a pretty facade hiding intense environmental destruction. And the ridiculous number of cars means it’s now a pollution choked hell hole.

@@John-kc4cg Ahah! Sarcasm... 😜

Yes, it looks quite nice. It's a bit like Disneyland though. Converted dockside warehouse style buildings where there never was a warehouse or a Dock look utterly phoney. In London there are warehouses converted into flats next to the river, because that's where you build riverside warehouses.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw Not as bad as most new developments. These houses have been made to get better with age. Not look dreadful in 20 years like the more modern style buildings .

A pastiche of a nostalgic fantasy. Disneyland gone soulless.

Apparently you’re not allowed to hang your washing out in the garden 😂

@@cornishiron Spot on.

It sadly won’t because the market will deliver what is cheap and quick. That means minimalising planning and architecture. Local authorities will typically approve things if it gets houses built and won’t prioritise style, design, aesthetics or, frankly, amenities.

Some builders are producing small developments of individually designed houses, not the cookie-cutter street scenes you see on other developments. I bought such a house last year on a small Davidson's Homes development who are proud of the street scene they create.

It still isn't finished, won't be finished until 2026 at least. There's a great video all about it by a Dutch (I think) architect.

I'd disagree about lack of vegetation, there's plenty of trees and large planters, they just aren't in bloom yet

In another video about Poundbury it said the builders couldnt afford anymore trees because of cuts to the budget. Maybe due to inflation, who knows, of unforseen building issues. Price of lumber in Canada went up by 65% in 2020-3021. For a while we couldnt even get kumber, and new house building was halted.

I do like the wide streets, this is something that should have been implemented after the Great Fire in 1666. However England wasn't ready for continental style wide boulevards which is a shame as it would allow for better town planning in this day and age

I think the wide streets look good. It gives the town an airy feel.

Is the social housing in Poundbury also in a faux Georgian style?

@@elgee6202 Yes it's built to blend in. You can't tell what is private and what isn't.

It does look very nice but where are all the people? Ok it's raining 🤦

@@frankreynolds4547 Yes it can be very quiet.

@@frankreynolds4547 they are all wandering around lost.

Indeed, this architectural style of course originated in you magnificent country, thank you

What is happening to some of those hilltop villages in ITALIA? Abandonment, restoration, demolition? Will migrants annex them?

​@@DavidPhilopott-bq9uv : do you want the truth? Italy is dying.

Why this hate for your fellow human beings? Why the verb "annex" - the dictionary definition of which is : "add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation." Source: Oxford languages You think the poor displaced human beings you refer to have territory already? Goodness me.. I hope you won't be forced to leave your home one day. @@DavidPhilopott-bq9uv

@@daydays12 displaced by who? Lmao these are economic migrants. Only ones being displaced are the locals.

Not enough pubs, though.

traditional building skills? I doubt it, they are just facades, jerry-built as all other modern housing. But the facades are very pleasing. They are not built solidly as true Georgian buildings, of brick and stone and oak. I think these have cavity walls made of gyproc, stuffed with horrible fibre-glass, supported by matchstick-like softwood timbers. Designed to last no longer than 100 years at most

@@charleswhite758 Yes and no in fact. Yes the walls are usually breeze block based and then they are clothed in brick. Not pretend or brick veneer like the trendy blocks of flats in London docklands for example, but honest to goodness brick. The nearest they come to your matchstick timbers is the insistence that the sash windows are wooden ones. Not a triple glazed uPVC door or window anywhere in Poundbury, nor satellite dish, nor many other signs of modernity. By design!

@@JP_TaVeryMuch Thanks for that clarification. "Clothed in brick" seems to me a euphemism for "brick veneer"🤣 True Georgian houses have walls made of solid brick, or mixed with stone or rubble, all bonded together with lime mortar. They are solid and designed to last for many centuries. I'm not sure how long these delicate sandwich type block and brick walls will last. And what is the disgusting ecologically noxious "insulation" they put into the cavity?

@@charleswhite758 Hoist by my own petard. I didn't make it as clear as I had hoped it seems. By "clothed in brick" and referring to the tower block faux frontages I meant real proper common or garden brick bricks. I know that you'd benefit from seeing them being built in the light of day, rather than on screen. It's unnerving to discover that what we think is true, no doubt about it, because we saw it on screen and know our stuff thank you; is somehow streets apart from reality. Happens to me time and again and I enjoy being brought down to earth because it reminds me that we're all human and fantastically fallible thank God!

@@JP_TaVeryMuch I intended something a lot less severe than hoisting!🤣 Merely a bit of verbal jousting and killing time. Thanks.

Stroll about with all that traffic noise and pollution, and difficulty crossing the major roads? . No trees, vast amounts of tarmac...looks like any other housing estate but with major roads running through it and a total lack of trees

@@daydays12 - As an alternative to city life, it looks quite nice to me.

The city where I live in France, and I live right in the centre, advertises its ambition to have nature in the city. It is making quite a good effort at it..many mature trees and mirror water pools and fountains right in the centre...a large tree has recently been planted near the front door of the building where I live. Not many cars in the centre and the public transport is good which keeps car use lower...the public transport is free on Saturdays and Sundays. @@solamano7239

So how do people get their bins emptied? For terraced houses, and there seem to be a lot of them, it surely means hauling heavy wet potentially-smelly wheelie-bins thru the house from what I assume are enclosed small back yards. All those posh houses having that problem makes you think.

​@@dakrontu, terraced houses have shared entries to the back. That resolves the bin issue.

So people litter the grass

How multicultural is it?

The roads are a nice idea in theory but the reality is that someone was killed on a blind junction there in the last few years. I think the general idea is that everyone is supposed to drive slowly and it's safer for all but really drivers get bored, don't have anything stopping them, and drive at speed through completely unmarked junctions. I'm learning to drive around Poundbury at the moment and believe me it's a nightmare.

@@jacoby2002 Thanks for the input. It's good to have an alternative view.

Really? The cars can barrel along at any speed they like? Horrible. Lots of tarmac for cars , one or two spindly bushes. ( = nature??) I imagine it is pretty windswept

@@daydays12 I would imagine it's a 20 or 30 like any other built up area. The spindly bushes won't be like that for long.

It looks 99% denuded of trees. It had to be the plan.... macadam + cars + zero nature ( leaves and birds get in the way)@@robertdewar1752

It will develop slowly.

I think you've miassed the architectural point, Jon - nothing is a "copy". Each building is an often intriguing mixture of traditionally established styles.

Read the comment above yours from @thegardengnome - there are green places; it's just that they weren't shown in this film.

It has zero trees or anything natural/organic. Certainly no birds... I so agree. It is basically breeze block, tar-macadam and cars

Spot on. As a Landscape Architect I cannot emphasise just how much all the signage, clutter and guardrail roadmarkings etc etc create such awful visual mess. When you look at old photographs it is the lack of this stuff along with pre plastic window fenestration and lack of motor traffic which are the three major aspects that please. Here they have achieved two out of three. If only we could stop designing around the motor car too.

@@mikedowd2094I think it’s mostly a cultural thing. Where I live, I’d prefer signage and markings. It signals that the government has actually built something and this isn’t a rural area. Wide roads for areas with large populations of cars are essential and in Europe where cities are supposed to be walkable, they seem foreign and out of place. I think for the UK, however, these settlements are perfect. Albeit until the social drive for urbanisation doesn’t come to an end, towns like this will fade away as the youth will be more attracted to showcasing their peace of mind online and to others rather than having it in real life. I’d prefer newer towns and cities to be a mix of American and European settlements. Kinda like what Australia has done. Keep the cars but also the walkable nature.

You hit the nail on the head. I visited Prague recently and its historic centre has many of the same features as Poundbury: no road signs, beautiful stone buildings, a variety of architectural designs. Prague's historic centre was built mostly in the 14th century, and it is one of very few (possibly the largest and best preserved) medieval city in Europe that has survived intact to this day. Goes to show that we can still build beautiful places today, just like they used to do centuries ago.

Good to hear about the affordable housing

A 15 min city.

"green space" = savagely mown grass? That is so anti ecological. I can't imagine there are even birds in this desert

@@daydays12exactly and so many cars like an industrial estate.

@@wulfsorenson8859 Yes indeed! Thanks for that.

Different though. Beats the cookie cutter housing estates copied and pasted over the rest of England.

I doesn't work because 'old' 'traditional ' villages/towns were not 'planned' to look like they did but grew organically with different families and individuals providing different parts and the ones serving the needs of the others. This place has eliminated anything organic and the possibility of anything organic as exemplified in the vast expanses of tar macadam, cars and zero mature trees

@@daydays12 Thanks. I agree with the thrust of what you're saying. That the ongoing organic adaptation brings different results to 'grand plans'. A qualification though - there was some legislation about who could do what where. There were new towns established - and were free of taxes and so forth.

Thanks for that. @@evanhadkins5532

You are so right. the only 'living' things in the housing estate in the video are cars. Vast expanses of tarmac, no trees so certainly no birds or anything natural. Windswept too and difficult to cross this major roads Nothing organic about it at all

So nice to read this interesting post from you.

There are no trees. Just tar-macadam and cars. Clean??

​@@daydays12Plenty of trees on Poundbury. This was filmed in winter so the trees are mostly bare. Looks different at this time of year.

@@paulfletcher3998 Thank you for that 🙂

You like large expanses of tarmac and car traffic and dislike trees?

@@daydays12It’s has green spaces developed in but it’s a new build so nature will take a few more years to establish in gardens and spaces. Also it’s winter in the video so nothing is in bloom yet.

in the video there were no mature trees - I guess they'd all been cut down. I saw may be one or two spindly bushes. The small area grass I saw was closely machined which is not ecological at all. It seems the automobile is the dominant form of wildlife in that housing estate. I was negatively surprised. @@squirepepe8657

In the video I saw no mature trees - I imagine they'd all been cut down. I saw may be one or two spindly bushes. The small area of grass I saw was closely machine mowed, which is not at all ecological. It is clear that the priority in this housing estate is the automobile. I don't know if you think 'nature' is able to come back from the devastation caused by property developers. Tar-macadam and concrete and severely machined grass and one or two isolated spindly bushes is not going to enable 'nature' to come back. You are asking a lot of 'nature'. It makes me cry to see this massive destruction and indifference to the natural world going on all over the country, not just in Poundbury. I bet a lot of wonderful promises were made before the green fields, hedgerows and woodland were bulldozed. Poundbury was started in 1993 so it is not exactly 'new build' whatever that means. I understand there's even a concrete square, Queen Mother Square which judging from photos appears to be a car park with statues of the Queen Mother and other 'Royals'.​ This place is the opposite of organic and is anti 'nature'. @@squirepepe8657​

Glad you enjoyed it!

Are there any Pub's ??

If you like noisy cars , pollution and large amounts of tarmac and a treeless, nature less environment

They originally hoped to but asphalt was chosen due to cost constraints.

​@@musicandbooklover-p2o Yes they did, pity really, it would have looked much better.

You are just saying it is a desert motor town....just aspphalt and noisy polluting cars. >Looks like it's pretty windswept too. No trees, no signs of public transport

Ever present asphalt and lack of trees is a design feature... it is a place 'designed round the car'

The lack of street trees and the use of asphalt for sidewalks looks strange to my Canadian eyes too.

Please educate yourself on the WEF policies, who is behind the WEF, the running of the Duchy and what charles did to Diana as you sound too young to remember her.

"putting the electric grid underground" is the way we do it in the UK; underground cabling to houses and businesses is standard. Poundbury is no different to any other village, suburb or city in this respect.

A little research will show that he was a supporter of the World Economic Forum and its globalist, marxist agenda. A supporter of 15-minute cities and 'climate change' lockdowns. No friend of the people. Attractive as the town is, for that reason alone I would never live there.

just say you're a white supremacist and be done with it

Way to turn architecture into a racist pitch. 🙄

The buildings in London are also real, it's just they don't suit modern living. In all honesty I wish houses in Central London were a bit more ambitious and spacious than they are presently, there wouldn't be so much need to butcher the facades to preserve the look.

Margaret Thatcher would love it Soulless fakery

Where’s the affordable housing 🤣🤣🤣

indeed.. hidden away somewhere I imagine! @@cornishiron

​@@cornishiron What do you mean?

It is a motor town ( no yellow lines) devoted to tarmac and cars. Windswept I imagine and unpleasant with major roads everywhere.

Milton Keynes is a shameful ode to the motor car as was the Plymouth city re-construction.

@@daydays12 I grew up in Coventry another concrete monolith. Successive councils even before and after WWII did more damage to the fabric of the city than the Luftwaffe.

35% is social housing and it also has low cost craft centres so those IN the social housing can also learn skills with which to earn money. He really did think about everybody living there, not just those with lots of money.

Thank you so much for that! I didn't know 'Electric Dreams' . I've just started watching it. It is very interesting. Greetings to you from a Brit living in France..

It represented kind of nightmare.

this place has Waitrose plus car park

I thought that a bit New England style probably coz of the very straight new roads

I agree 1000% You put it so succinctly. It is exactly that. Designed around the car... and started in 1993 when people were beginning to realise the car was not all it had been cracked upon to be..

If you can afford it!

Having their electrical grid hidden underground protects this town from possible future EMPs in which case the residents of this place will be among a few ones who will survive apocalypse.

@@johnrigler8858 there's plenty of social housing: it just doesn't LOOK like social housing.

Do you live in the U.K.? Exposed overhead electric cables are rare here - in town they are nearly always buried, in fact I’m pretty sure it has been a requirement of building permission for years.

@davidpaterson2309 No, I live across the water in Ireland. Overhead cables are very common here. It's been years since I visited the UK, so I'm afraid I'm a bit out of touch. You've given me an excuse to pop over to visit my nephew. OK, it's a pretty pathetic excuse lol.

It is totally and in every meaning of the word inorganic.

​@@daydays12 Unlike the "organic" abstract glass and steel hellscapes we call cities now.

@@APAL880 Compared to the very opposite to what you say in the big city in France, where In live. I live in the very centre and there's no 'glass and steel hells cape', there are many trees, lots of small shops and amenities within short walking distance..a major electronic store in the beautiful old Stock Exchange building right in the centre, an excellent tram system and v good 'priority' buses all free at the week ends , a railway station which melds into a botanical garden a lovely ' old quarter' spared from British and American bombing. One of the reasons this city centre is so success is that lots of people live in it and do not need cars to do their day things like shopping, doctor/dentist cafés pubs bars, hospital clinics, theatres opera restaurants etc all within walking distance plus made accessible by a very good and cheap tram, bus and even ferry bus system. If cycling is your thing it is easy to get around on the dedicated cycleways. I could go on. I think you need to compare MK with places like the one I live in rather than with glass and steel hellscapes

They used local tradesmen and locally sourced traditional building materials actually. It’s the real deal. Which is why it was over budget and they had to compromise on the street design quite a lot. It was supposed to be nicer with cobblestones and stuff.

I so agree with you. Greetings to you you from a Brit living in France. The large city where I live talks about bringing nature into town..it to a large extent it does; it and keeps cars mainly out of the centre provides excellent public transport , free on Saturday and Sunday. The housing development inn the video seems to hate nature and prefers tarmac and cars and non ecological closely mown grass aieee

To me it it is a blot on the beautiful Dorset landscape. Soulless. Forced, fakery. I believe the properties are leasehold to boot, mmm. So win, win for the Duchy. (I'm not anti monarchist but makes you think). I liked the idea behind it but not how it has evolved.

@@andreathomson4376 I wasn't very happy about it when I drove past there. Dorchester used to be like Casterbridge as depicted in the Thomas Hardy novels. I agree with your comment!

Thanks so much for that. I agree absolutely. Any trace of the natural world... fields, hedges, woods, even trees have been thoroughly erased and replaced by tar-macadam and cars.

Thanks so much for that! @@andreathomson4376

Why would it? There is nothing natural to respond to Spring.. no trees, no plants, no birds, just cars. I don't know if car noise becomes more joyous in the Spring!

Indeed... but the Prisoner village has woodlands.

I SO agree about the trees ( lack of) Just tarmac and cars. Nasty place

Oh thank you so much for that, bless your cotton socks. You express some of what I feel about this place .. car-centric zero trees....inorganic

'I think the reason the buildings look just slightly odd is that they don’t actually have the exact proportions to be true copies of their original models' that's exactly it, and what gives rise to what another poster has described as the uncanny valley feel of Poundbury. Also, what town that size would have a street of grand stucco terraces immediately next to one with homes built in a vernacular style and then round the corner something that looks like a converted warehouse from the docklands of a large city?

@@ballyhigh11 Yes, the odd juxtaposition of mismatched styles gives the place the feel of an open-air museum rather than a place that’s grown organically over many years.

Haha that’s where I’m from, well right nearby, but I know what you mean 😂

Nearly everyone mentions the lack of trees. They were all bulldozed together with hedgerows streams and ponds and fields at the beginning of the project. It is a tar -macadam place designed round the motor car. Cars do not blossom in the Spring or react to sunlight. The place was started in 1993 and there is not a single relatively mature tree!

It would be no different. Cars do not blossom in the Spring or become dark green and give shade in Summer. There are zero mature trees in the place or even any other plants that I could see.. just a patch of severely mown grass- which is anti ecological . I am British but live in the centre of a big city in France... it is Spring know and the hundreds and hundreds of trees here in the centre a re greening and others are blossoming. That's what makes Spring! That Poundbury looks dead. Nothing natural to respond to the seasons

Yes. Most commenters mention this. I guess this is part of the design around the motor car. Lots of asphalt and wide roads with no obstacles for cars, no cycle lane. Virtually zero trees or any other plants. Is it because trees are untidy and unruly and organic.. have lives of their own?

That would be cool!

That's been done, and the people who live there really love it. Everything's walkable.

How can you walk anywhere with all those cars? @@nycbearff

Thank you very much for that. This place is exactly as you describe it. Its is inorganic trying to imitate the result only of hundreds of years of development without the development.

Didn’t feel or detect any ‘vibe’.

@@brunodesrosiers266 hard to when you’re looking through a phone or monitor 👍🏻

Hard to detect one through a phone or computer, I guess @@brunodesrosiers266

hard to detect anything through a phone/monitor@@brunodesrosiers266

@@brunodesrosiers266 hard to through a phone 🙂

"Roads much wider than usual" is good for cars and car noise but for nothing else. Just air pollution and asphalt. Zero trees or any other plants. Lovely!

Just so. Zero trees, plants or anything organic. The little spaces of grass savagely mown, which his anti ecological. It is a kind of desert.

Yes - the whole place is totally inorganic - seems to hate trees and plants in general.

indeed. a dystopia but without the woodlands and trees and plants and fountains that there are in that other village

It’s a very new build it will take a good few years for large trees to establish themselves.

Yes. I guess all the mature trees and hedgerows were bulldozed. Here, where I live ( I'm a Brit) in France developers are obliged to integrate existing mature trees , hedge rows and other natural features, like ponds, streams etc into their plans. This Poundbury place has taken the opposite view ( seems to be the UK view) i.e; - destroy all the plants, trees, streams, ponds etc, cover everything with tar- macadam for motor cars and build fake olde worlde buildings and do no planting.

😂😂😂

Nice one. Exactly. Port Merion has lots of woodland while this place is an asphalt desert.

Yes. That's what it is .. barracks designed around the motor car. Almost zero trees, plants or anything organic. I wonder if the inhabitants live regimented lives. I guess there are many rules and regulations in Poundbury.

military barracks!!? How many military barracks have you been to?

Yes it does have a kind of institutional air, and I agree about the barracks bit.

@@MrPhantom1961 have you seen a Georgian millitary barracks?

Exactly as you wrote - a military barracks plus expanses of asphalt, zero trees or anything else organic except savagely mown grass ( anti ecological), and lots of noisy cars on wide roads. Depressing place. It was used to represent a sort of nightmare/ hell in one episode of a TV series in around 2017. It resembles in its' feel - but with extensive woodlands, which Poundbury does not have that place in Wales used for the dystopian series " The Prisoner" in the 1960s.

Happy holidays!

@@explorizmtv I hope you have a Happy holiday.

really? I thoughtnpubs were dying. I hope it has a huge car park since this housing estate was designed around the car. No trees, no plants, notice, no cycle lanes, just asphalt and cars