Milton Keynes: Image and Reality

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An in-depth insight into the planning and implementation of the new city of Milton Keynes, with quotes from the planners involved.

Terence Bendixson and John Platt, Granta Press.

hbk x, 301 pp, illus.

An in-depth insight into the planning and implementation of the new city of Milton Keynes, with quotes from the planners involved.

Terence Bendixson and John Platt, Granta Press.

hbk x, 301 pp, illus.

Contents

  • Preface

  • Birth of a city

  • Antecedents

  • Where will the people live

  • The Chairman, the Board and the consultants

  • Goals

  • Master Plan

  • Decision

  • University and airport

  • Troubles at Westminster

  • 'Good design'

  • Image

  • Houses for rent

  • Central Milton Keynes

  • 'Shopping as it should be'

  • Waiting for the bus

  • A grand suburban design

  • Threatened by inner cities

  • Thatcher-effect

  • A regional office centre

  • Boom years

  • 'Home Sweet Home'

  • Jobs

  • Reality

  • The next thousand years

  • Appendix 1. Milton Keynes at 31 March 1991

  • Appendix 2. Milton Keynes Development Corporation - the Board

  • Appendix 3. Milton Keynes Development Corporation Executive

  • Appendix 4. Sources

  • Appendix 5. Acknowledgements and credits