(RE):New Towns

Linked research into post-war urban fabric.

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The post-war New Towns were drawn quickly, built slowly, and inherited unevenly. Six decades on, their civic centres are thinning while their edges quietly thicken.

Town plan overlay — Comparative figure-ground, four New Towns.

The research reads these places not as failures of vision but as half-finished arguments about how a public life should be shaped.

Archive photograph — Original masterplan, mid-1960s.