Planned extension to Portsmouth Harbour, in the face of the growing size of Steamships, from 1861.
(Original plans to be found in the city museum.)
(Original plans to be found in the city museum.)
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What i've never understood about this plan is the coal stores are on made ground rather than on existing shore which massively increases the amount of material needed and pushes the whole construction out further than it needs to be.
Also, no sign of dry docks, which are kind of useful.........
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Devvy
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West Midlands:
(nice little Edgbaston Expressway just blasting through there!)
Leicester:
Seemingly a load of pedways...
And finally Newcastle:
Apparently widespread demolishing of the city centre in favour of motorways. <facepalm>
All out of a book from a 1973 study about city centre redevelopments, and the local government plans for redeveloping.
(nice little Edgbaston Expressway just blasting through there!)
Leicester:
Seemingly a load of pedways...
And finally Newcastle:
Apparently widespread demolishing of the city centre in favour of motorways. <facepalm>
All out of a book from a 1973 study about city centre redevelopments, and the local government plans for redeveloping.
Coulsdon Eagle
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I still believe that town planners were more destructive than the Luftwaffe.
In Coventry the blitz was used as the excuse to built the pre-war planned Precinct despite that the area marked for it was not as bombed as much as the Council would have you believe.
Much like America Britain demolish swaths of their cities to make way for new developments, motorways, and so forth.
In Newcastle it's not just the post war planners that are at fault for destroying things needlessly. The Victorian East Coast Mainline Railway cuts through the 12th century castle that gives the place its name. Only the Keep and a Gatehouse remain.
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The Leicester plan looks quite old. It misses St Margaret’s Way (the A6) which opened in the late ‘70s (78?) but was planned much earlier (to link the the large council estates to the north of the city and provide a better through route for the A6 out of Leicester). It also seems to build around the Clock Tower - in particular where the Haymarket shopping centre was built (opening in ‘73). It has the Leicester inner ring, including the Southgate’s Underpass (opened in ‘68). I’d say this is probably am early part of the 60’s plans by Konrad Smigielski. He had very ambitious plans (and mucho mucho lots of concrete) including monorail, pedestrian ways etc.
Now quite an unbuilt as a 'should be built' in Britain.
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/08/03/c...FLciz0MIhWD8NjG0Cp23hDq2aGJ1ndA_QGP4ZbESENS2U
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/08/03/c...FLciz0MIhWD8NjG0Cp23hDq2aGJ1ndA_QGP4ZbESENS2U
As a Bath supporter.....yes please. But I will miss The Wreck it's a dump, but it's our dump.Now quite an unbuilt as a 'should be built' in Britain.
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/08/03/c...FLciz0MIhWD8NjG0Cp23hDq2aGJ1ndA_QGP4ZbESENS2U
A few taller buildings have gone up more recently towards the docks, but other than that, mostly.
There's not many high rise buildings along the waterfront, they're mostly around the city centre just to be left of where that photo shows. You can't see the Graces in that photo either, because they block the view of the cathedrals from further up the river. I'd say the photo is probably taken somewhere around Port Sunlight or Eastham.
Liverpool does, however, remain the most beautiful city in the world.