FIFTY NEW TOWNS
PLANNED IN BRITAIN
MOTORWAYS, IDEAL HOMES
A Britain rebuilt by experts and artists with 50 new towns, sweeping highways for fast motor traffic, houses designed as ideal homes for the family. . . That was the picture painted at a "Planning for Living" conference at Canterbury recently. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple, was chairman at the session of the conference which met to discuss plans for postwar Britain. "We need to plan a society, as far as we can, which counts upon, and thereby stimulates, the responsible participation of all its members in the direction of their common life," he said. The Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, asked for a revolution in the planning of houses—"the workshop in which the mother has to undertake the world's greatest task."
The dean advocated cities of from 40,000 to 50,000 population.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 81, 6 April 1943, Page 2
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