The Aesthetic City Academy

Discover the timeless principles behind great places

For Beautiful and Livable Places

The places we live shape how we experience life. Yet too often they are planned without beauty, human scale, or lasting livability in mind. The Aesthetic City Academy draws on the time-tested principles of traditional urbanism to help you see cities and places more clearly and to give you the tools to design, advocate, and create better environments for people.

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Inside the Academy

Membership includes the Foundation Course and the Town Square community

Free Crash Course: Creating Aesthetic Cities
Course
In this 40 minute free crash course, Ruben explains the massive problems our cities are facing, and explains how we can still build beautiful, livable cities today

Free
The Foundations Course - Creating Aesthetic Cities
Course
A focused introduction to the timeless principles of beautiful, lasting cities. Get the language to articulate what makes places work, plus the tools to advocate for better design where you live.

$97
The Town Square
Community
Welcome to The Town Square, our dedicated community space for The Aesthetic City Academy. Join our Discord community here: https://discord.gg/dKzEyEJvE7

Learn what makes places loved, economically resilient, grounded in a sense of place, sustainable, and truly healthy for the people who live in them
See the world around you differently and develop the eye and vocabulary to describe what makes places successful or unsuccessful
Make an impact from where you are and join a community working toward a more beautiful and lasting built world

Free Crash Course: Creating Aesthetic Cities

The Foundations Course - Creating Aesthetic Cities

The Town Square