Document Type
Article
Themes
New Towns; Urban Redevelopment
Identifier
HF001
Rights Management
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Abstract
"In 1946 when Lewis Silkin, Minister of Housing, approached Stevenage, then a quiet village of about 6,000 residents 30 miles north of London in the lovely rolling Hertfordshire countryside, he must have suspected that the villagers were not particularly anxious to hear him speak. The sign in the railway station had been changed to Silkingrad by some of the disgruntled villagers and before he was to leave he found the tires of his car deflated and some sand in the petrol tank. Stevenage was the first "new town" designated under the New Towns Act of 1946 and the Minister was there to tell the villagers what this would mean for them."
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chester, "New Town: We Can Learn From This British Venture" (1970). Smolski Texts. 3.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_text/3
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Included in
Physical and Environmental Geography Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons
Comments
Stevenage as a prototype of British New Town.