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About us
Street Level Australia is an association of local groups working to make Australian places more beautiful and conducive to cultural and human flourishing by advancing good urbanism, traditional architecture and quality building. We exist to promote excellence and beauty in design.
Street Level is a fundamentally local organisation. We are currently active in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Northern New South Wales and Perth and working to seed the creation of local Street Level groups around Australia. See where we are active and register your interest in starting a Street Level group. Street Level Australia is a registered Australian charity.
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Stop ugly, bland and soulless building and urban design
Advocate for the best kind of density — gentle density — for home availability and affordability
Encourage beautiful architecture and resilient developments
Plan and build a city or neighbourhood that will last hundreds of years
Advocate for classic planning and human-centred places
Transform suburbia to promote human flourishing
Our mission
Increase the proportion of new buildings and developments that will last hundreds or thousands of years — not decades — and get better, not worse, with age
Increase the proportion of new buildings and developments that are beautiful and accord with the preferences of local communities
Implement the traditional town planning approach in major Australian cities, municipalities and towns, creating at least three places in Australia with traditional masterplans by 2025
What we mean by ‘traditional’
When we talk about ‘traditional architecture’ or ‘traditional urbanism,’ we don’t mean traditional in a political sense. ‘Traditional’ refers to certain examples of architectural design as a conception of beauty, and means the approaches to architectural design, building and ornamentation that humans have used for thousands of years across different countries, cultures and climates.
‘Traditional’ in planning design means building public spaces to a human scale, where a person on foot can feel comfortable and safe, and a fine-grained mix of uses where homes and businesses are in the same place. There is an abundance of wisdom, knowledge and technology that our culture and institutions must rediscover from the past and apply to modern development to drastically improve our built environment, with all the associated benefits.
New traditional inspiration
View our gallery of new traditional architecture, places and towns. All of our examples were built within the last ten to twenty years. Better is possible. Is your architect on board?
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We are building a revolution.
We are building a revolution to increase the number of beautiful, quality and enduring local neighbourhoods, streets and buildings in Australia through local chapters comprised of people who deeply love, and are fighting to improve, their local area.
Unlike most revolutions, we intend to restore the wisdom of the past.
