The Radburn Idea 2: A Peterborough Effect

The Radburn Idea 2 continues the story of my previous book, 'The Radburn Idea: pedestrianisation in the post-war English housing estate' by concentrating on the work of the Peterborough Development Corporation in the late 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It examines how the corporation's architects and planners attempted to create three new, pedestrian-friendly, car-free 'townships' on the edge of the city. As such, the book also documents the planned decline of public housing in the 1980s as the Thatcherite drive for home ownership centred on traditional forms of estate design, which eventually led to the abandonment of Radburn-type pedestrianisation.

76pp, with 32 photographs/illustrations.
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