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It Probably was. I think the show was called working class.

That is because they were supposed to be communities. The idea might have worked had they, when the slums, deprived and war damaged areas where cleared put those whole neighbourhoods back together again in one place in one piece. Instead they were scattered to the wind all over the South East and new towns.

Aylesbury is that conglomeration of five massive blocks behind E&C?
That is supposed to be knocked down, but where do you put all the people that live there?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6S18LCISRm4

^^ Satellite communities all thanks to the invention of the car.

its not Aylesbury, the flying elevated walkways one was something else

Anybody read that book, "Where's My Space Age!" ?
Space Age

The elevated "Walk-Ways in the Sky" was a non-scheme specific ideal from Aylesbury to Le Corbusier.

they where right up unill about 4 mins, every thing they said either is in existance, or will be in soon, thy are making robots that build buildings in japan, and alredy have parking lots and sidewlaks that heat electronicly.

Build http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6S18LCISRm4

"Such visionary ideas which today seem sheer fantasy will be commonplace to future generations"
These guys must have been the proto-hippies, fired up on mescaline and dreams of an American-world capitalist utopia.
Then they got bummed out.

The problem with our citys that they just finished infrastructure projects started in the 60s/70s and we will experince new problems when the projects started now finish in 20-30 years.

this is because urban planing is targeted to a minority of the population, in the 50-70s suburbanization was a big thing for the rich and white, so we saw expanse of the interstate highway system, and a massive growth in once agricultural areas around metropolitan areas. this concentrated the black and poor in inner cities, which led to problems (think LA riots, or Brixton riots) this happened as people realized how horrible suburban living is and wanted to move back to the cites. but they had all these poor people in the way, so a plan was hatched, they call it spacial deconsetration, they eliminated funding for cultural and social projects in the inner cities, but kept the cultural establishments that are attractive to the rich. at the same time they cut the prices of houses built in the 50s and 60s and heavily sold them to the workers that had been concentrated in the inner cities. this trend continues to this day.

of course suburbanization and urban sprawl where always really bad ideas, and the obvious solution to these problems is by urbanization with mixed income housing in every building with rent control. demolishing the suburbs and returning that land to farm land, and using some of it to improve the rail infrastructure. so that people who whish to do so can leave the city for holidays esaly, but will be close to work and shops.

http://www.nr23.net/ringway.htm

the car manufacturers have a lot to answer for.

not least about 10 deaths on britains roads every day. thats one every 2.5 hrs. talk about poor planning ?

if it was al quieda there would be uproar. but it is porsche etc, the highway planners and a bunch of top gear ****tards and it does not even make the news.

andyp [quote]Build Yeah. I saw a programme about that a few years ago. There was a plan to build a huge housing mega estate in Camberwell. The plan was, it would be linked by skyways, so pedestrians would never have to touch the ground until they reached the Elephant & Castle.

I think part of it did get built. According to the show, the female architect committed suicide when she saw what it became.

That's the [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylesbury_Estate]Aylesbury Estate [/ame] I think.[/quote]

they actually tried something like that in (or maybe just near) newcastle. they had to shut it down because the crime levels got really bad.
they basically turned every street into a shady alleyway perfect for muggings!

Just been reading more about it, lol they planned for 4 rings! which had many radial spokes ..quite ironic, if you look at the plan it looks very much like a bike wheel ;)

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Ringways]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Ringways[/ame]
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/ringways/

http://joox.net/cat/2/id/2225268

Things to come. (1936). Flying is finished. The petrol era has finished.

mister k They were pretty concrete-happy in the 60's.
Check out T. Dan Smith. He managed t demolish half of Newcastle before they locked him up for corruption.

was going to mention that - i spent a lot of my early teens (i still am a teenager) exploring many of t. dan smith's edifices. in a twisted way i actually quite like them!