If you haven’t seen this charming little film by the Central
Office of Information on the British Government’s 1948 New Town strategy then
you should have.
If Britain is to experience a wave of New Towns then where
should they be built? Should they be built on virgin green land, retrofitted to
existing low-density sprawl or built on existing brownfield sites? The second two options are worthy of serious
consideration. The wave of New Towns built after the War were not always built
on entirely new green sites but were sometimes expansions of existing towns.
Basingstoke was such a town. The ill-fated Eco Towns were proposed on land which
was often brownfield former- military sites.
I wonder when was the last time the British Government made
an animated film explaining its urban design policies?
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