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Chrisp Street Market, 1, 2, 3, 4
Churchill Gardens, 1, 2
Churchill, Winston, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
CIAM, 1, 2, 3
CLASP, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Clore, Charles, 1
Clyde Valley Regional Plan 1
Coal House, Doncaster, 1
comprehensive development areas (CDAs), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
conservation (preservation), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Copcutt, Geoffrey, 1, 2, 3, 4
Corby, 1
Cotton, Jack, 1
County of London Plan, 1, 2, 3, 4,
Covent Garden, 1, 2, 3
Coventry Cathedral, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Coventry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Cox, Oliver, 1
Craigie, Jill, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Crap Towns, 1, 2, 3
Crawley, 1, 2, 3, 4
Crittall, 1
Crosby, Theo, 1, 2
Crossgates shopping centre, 1
Crossman, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Crowe, Sylvia, 1
Croydon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Cruddas Park, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Crudens, 1, 2, 3, 4
Cruikshank, Dan, 1
Cullen, Gordon, 1, 2
Cumbernauld, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Cunningham, Andrew, 1, 2
Cwmbran, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Davie, Ken, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
Day, Lucienne, 1
Day, Robin, 1, 2
Demolition, 1, 2
Denholm, Ken and Margaret, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Devine, David, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Direct Labour organisation, 1
Dome of Discovery, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Douglas-Home, Alec, 1
Draper’s Gardens, 1, 2
Drew, Jane, 1, 2, 3, 4
Duncan-Sandys, Lord 1, 2
Dundee, 1, 2
Dunnett, James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
East End, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
East Kilbride, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ebery, Evan 1
Economist Plaza, 1
Eden, Anthony, moustache 1
Edinburgh New Town, 1, 2, 3
Eldon Square, 1, 2
Elephant and Castle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Elizabeth House, 1
Ellard, Patrick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Engineering Gas Research Station, 1,
Euston Centre, 1, 2, 3, 4
Excalibur Estate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
exhibitions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Festival Hall, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Festival of Britain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
festival style, 1
Fielding, Fenella, 1, 2
Fitzwalter, Raymond, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Forshaw, John Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Forster, E. M., 1, 2
Foster, Norman, 1
Fry, Maxwell, 1, 2, 3, 4
Gaitskell, Hugh, 1
Galley, Kenneth, 1
garden cities, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Gateshead, 1, 2, 3
Gateway House, 1
Gatwick Airport, 1, 2
Get Carter, 1, 2
Gibberd, Frederick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Gibson, David, 1
Gibson, Donald, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gilbert Ash, 1, 2, 3
Gill, Danny, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Glasgow, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Glenrothes, 1, 2
Gold, John, 1, 2, 3
Golden Lane estate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Goldfinger, Ernő, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Gollins, Melvin and Ward, 1
Goonhilly Downs, 1
Gorbals Riverside, 1, 2
Gorbals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Gordon, Rodney, 1, 2
Greater London Council, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
green belt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Griffiths, Jim and Jo, 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Gropius, Walter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Gyford, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Hagenbach, Arnold, 1, 2
Hamilton, Richard, 1
Harlow, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Hatfield, 1
Hawtrey, Charles, 1
Hay, David, 1, 2, 3
Hayward, Sir Isaac, 1
Heath, Edward, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
helicopter (also: helipad, heliport, hover plane, Rotodyne), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Hempstead, Hemel, 1, 2, 3
Hereford, 1,
Heygate Estate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hibbert, Katharine, 1, 2, 3
High Market, 1, 2
Hills system, 1
Holden, Charles, 1
Holford, Sir William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Holt, Allan, 1, 2
Honer, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Hook, Hampshire, 1, 2, 3, 4
Howard, Ebenezer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Hull, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hunstanton, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Hutchesontown-Gorbals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Hutchie E (Hutchesontown-Polmodie), 1, 2, 3
Hyams, Harry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Impington Village College, 1
Irvine, 1, 2
Islington, 1, 2, 3, 4
Jacobs, Jane, 1, 2, 3
Jarrow, 1
Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1, 2,
Jesmond Vale, 1, 2
Jespersen system, 1
Jodrell Bank, 1
Johnson-Marshall, Percy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Johnson-Marshall, Stirratt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Joseph, Sir Keith, 1, 2, 3, 4
Jozefowski, Paul, 1, 2, 3, 4
Kadleigh, Sergei, 1, 2
Kenyon, Sir Bernard, 1, 2
King, Lord, 1
King’s Reach Tower, 1
Knight, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Korn, Arthur, 1, 2
Laing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Lambeth, 1, 2
Laming, George, 1
landscape architecture (also: parks, planting, wedges), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Langley, John, 1, 2
Larsen Nielsen system, 1, 2
Lasdun, Denys, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lawns, The, Harlow, 1, 2
Le Corbusier, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Lee, Laurie, 1
Leeds International Pool, 1
Leeds, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Leicester, 1, 2, 3
Letchworth Garden City, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Levy, Joe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ling, Arthur, 1, 2, 3
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, 1
Liverpool, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Livingstone, 1
Llewelyn-Davies, Richard, 1, 2
London County Council, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37
London Wall, 1, 2
Los Angeles, 1, 2, 3, 4
Luder, Owen, 1, 2
Lunar House, 1, 2, 3
Lund, Kenneth, 1
Lynn, Jack, 1, 2, 3
Lyons, Eric, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Macmillan, Harold, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Manchester Arndale, 1
Manchester, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
MARS, 1, 2, 3
Marsh, George, 1, 2, 3
Marshall, Sir James, 1, 2, 3, 4
Martin, Leslie, 1, 2, 3
Mass Observation, 1, 2, 3
Matthew, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Matthews, John, 1, 2
Maudling, Beryl, 1
Maudling, Reginald, 1, 2
Maudsley, Alan, 1
McAlpines, 1
McGonnell, Eddie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Medd, David and Mary, 1, 2, 3
Meredith, Jo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Milton Keynes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Ministry of Housing and Local
Government, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1,
Ministry of Works, 1, 2, 3
monorail, 1, 2, 3, 4
Moore, Henry, 1, 2
Morrison, Herbert, 1, 2
mosaic tiling, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Motopia, 1
‘motorway box’, 1, 2
motorways, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Moya, Jacko, 1, 2
Mulrenan, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Mulrenan, Patrick, 1, 2, 3
Myton, 1
Nairn, Ian, 1, 2, 3, 4
National Building Agency, 1
National Health Service, 1, 2
National Theatre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
NatWest Tower, 1, 2
Nelson, 1
New Addington, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
New Ash Green, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
new brutalism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
New London Bridge House, 1, 2
new towns, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56
New Zealand House, 1
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Newton Aycliffe, 1
Niemeyer, Oscar, 1
NLA Tower, 1, 2, 3, 4
North Peckham Estate, 1, 2
North, Thomas, 1, 2
Notting Hill, 1
O’Sullivan, Mark, 1, 2, 3
Olivier, Laurence, 1, 2
Open Systems Building, 1, 2, 3, 4
Open University, 1, 2, 3, 4
Osborn, Frederic, 1, 2, 3, 4
Osmond, Barbara, 1
Oxford, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Paddington, 1, 2, 3
Park Hill, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Parkleys, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
pedestrian decks, 1, 2, 3, 4
Peterlee, 1, 2
Philip, HRH Prince, 1
Piccadilly Circus, 1, 2
Pilkington Brothers 1, 2
pilotis (also: column, pillar), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Piper, John, 1, 2, 3
Plan for Plymouth, A, 1
Plymouth, 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13
point block, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Pontefract, 1, 2, 3
Poole, 1
Pooley, Fred, 1
Poplar, 1, 2, 3, 4
Portsmouth, 1, 2, 3
Post Office Tower, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
Pottinger, William, 1, 2
Poulson, John, 1, 2, 3, 4
Powell, Enoch, 1, 2
Powell, Geoffry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Powell, Philip, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘prairie planning’, 1, 2
‘pram town’, 1, 2, 3, 4
precincts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
prefabs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Preston bus station, 1
Preston bypass, 1, 2
Price, Sir Frank, 1, 2, 3
protests (also: campaign), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
public consultation, 1, 2
Queen Elizabeth II, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Queen Elizabeth Square (the Queenies), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Rachman, Peter, 1
Ravenseft, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rawtenstall, 1
Red Road estate, 1, 2, 3
Reed, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Reilly, Tom, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Reith, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rhiwbina, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
RIBA, 1, 2, 3
Richard, Cliff, 1, 2
Richards, J. M., 1, 2
ring roads (also: urban motorway), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Rippon, Geoffrey, 1
RMJM (Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall), 1, 2, 3, 4
Roberts, James, 1, 2, 3, 4
Roche, Fred Lloyd, 1, 2
Rogers, Richard, 1, 2
Ronan Point, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Ronan, Harry, 1, 2
Rosenauer, Michael, 1, 2, 3
Rotunda, The, 1, 2
Royal Engineers, 1
Roystonhill, 1
Runcorn, 1
Ryder and Yates, 1
Sales, Billy, 1
Scandinavian modernism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert, 1, 2
Scottish Office, 1, 2
Seagram Building, 1
Search, Janet, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sectra system, 1
Seifert, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Shankland, Graeme, 1
Sharp, Dame Evelyn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sharp, James, 1
Shee, Bill, 1
Sheffield, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Shenfield House, 1
Shone, Kenneth, 1
shopping centres, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
Shore, Peter, 1
Silkin, Lewis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Skarne system, 1, 2
Skelmersdale, 1
Skylon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Slough, 1, 2
slum clearance, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Smith, Ivor, 1, 2, 3
Smith, T. Dan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Smithson, Alison and Peter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Soviet Union, 1, 2, 3
Space House, 1, 2
Span, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
Spence, Sir Basil, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Sporle, Sidney, 1
SP UR, 1
Squires, Grenville, 1, 2, 3, 4
St George’s Tower, 1
Stamp, Gavin, 1, 2, 3
Stanley Miller, 1, 2
Stevenage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Stirling, James, 1
streets in the sky (also: elevated walkways), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
subways (also: underpasses), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Sunderland, 1, 2
Swindon, 1
Sydney Opera House, 1
system building, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Tait, Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Taylor Woodrow-Anglian, 1, 2
Telstar House, 1, 2, 3
terrorism (also: IRA), 1, 2
Thamesmead, 1
This is Tomorrow, 1, 2
Thorn House, 1
Toast Rack, The, 1
Tolworth Tower, 1
Tonbridge, Graham, 1, 2
tower block, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Townsend, Geoffrey, 1
Tracoba system, 1, 2
Traffic in Towns, 1, 2, 3, 4
> Trellick Tower, 1, 2, 3
Tricorn Centre, The, 1, 2
Trinity Square, 1, 2, 3
Tripp, Sir Herbert Alker, 1
Tubbs, Ralph, 1, 2
Twentieth Century Society, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Unité d’Habitation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
United Nations Secretariat building, 1, 2, 3
vandalism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Victoria Centre, Nottingham, 1
Victorian Society, The, 1, 2
Walker, Derek, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Walker, Peter, 1
Wandsworth, 1, 2
Wates, 1
Watson, James Paton, 1, 2, 3, 4
Weir, Daniel, 1, 2, 3, 4
Welfare State, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Wellingborough, 1
Wells Coates, 1
Welwyn Garden City, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Westway, The, 1, 2
Weybridge, 1
Whitgift Centre, 1, 2, 3
Williams, Kenneth, 1
Willets, 1
Willis, Margaret, 1
Willmott, Peter, 1, 2
Wilson, Harold, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Wilson, Hugh, 1, 2, 3
Wimpey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Winter, John, 1
Woking, 1
Womersley, Lewis, 1, 2, 3, 4
Woolwich, 1
Worcester, 1
Worlds End, 1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1, 2
Yorke, F. R. S., 1, 2
Young, Michael, 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has been a delight to write, thanks largely to all the people who helped along the way. Firstly, my agent Nicola Barr, who helped shape the original concept, and my editor, Ben Yarde-Buller, who worked so closely on the text with me. Then there was excellent proofreading and typesetting from Iona Macdonald and Emily Tinker, and the beautiful cover design by Donna Haywood. I’d also like to thank everyone at Old Street Publishing, Signature, Greene & Heaton and Faber Factory for their work in producing, distributing and publicising the book.
The biggest thanks should perhaps be reserved for all the people who agreed to be interviewed for the book, and without whom it couldn’t have been written: Peter Barry, Michael Caswell, Rosemary Caswell, Bob Chaney, Irene Chaney, Oliver Childs, Ken Davie, Ken Denholm, Margaret Denholm, David Devine, James Dunnett, Patrick Ellard, Raymond Fitzwalter, Danny Gill, Jim Griffiths, Jo Griffiths, John Gyford, Katharine Hibbert, John Honer, Paul Jozefowski, John Knight, John Langley, John Matthews, Eddie McGonnell, Jo Meredith, John Mulrenan, Patrick Mulrenan, Mark O’Sullivan, John Reed, Tom Reilly, Janet Search, Grenville Squires and Daniel Weir. I’m so grateful for the time you took and the remarkable things you shared. Thanks too to all the photographers who allowed me to reproduce their incredible pictures here.