CITIES OF THE FUTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 4

CITIES OF THE FUTURE

ENGLAND'S BLITZED AREAS

LONDON, June 8.

Government surveyors are walking London's blitzed areas measuring, calculating, and planning a new city which will grow after the war—a great port for the air fleets of the future, says the aeronautical correspondent of the "Daily Mail." ; One plan is a great airport sur- | rounded by a spacious war memorial park in the. heart of London. The airport would feed great junctions distributed through Britain from which huge airliners would maintain a world-wide service. The investigations are taking place quietly, because it is not desired to concentrate the attention of speculators on the value of the land. A report on the replanning of Southampton, prepared for the local council, says, that the destruction by the enemy provided an opportunity to effect changes in the use of land which would otherwise have been impossible because of the number of interests affected and the cost of disturbing them. The report urges that Southampton, in addition to its seaj port facilities, should be developed as a great international airline junction for both land planes and flying-boats.