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1960s Planning for Our Cities

JupiterKid · 2012-08-11 23:47:36

Back in the more simple and naive 1960s, the prevailing urban planning ideology was to sweep away the dirty decrepit old cities and replace them with new development of huge slab high rise tower blocks of flats, multi-lane motorways cutting through the hearts of towns and cities and a future of modern technology and…

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#32 13-08-2012 2:08pm
rugrats

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I wonder if we all lived in the sixties, would we all think that this was a great idea?

Didn't the motorways just look lovely in that propaganda video? :P

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#33 13-08-2012 5:46pm
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Whoever designed West Dublin, the Northside of Cork City and most of Limerick City, should indeed be sent to the guillotine.

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