REBUILDING OF LONDON
A FIFTY-YEAR PLAN
RUGBY, July 9.
An ambitious 50-year plan for the entire remodelling of London has been drawn up by Sir Patrick Abercrombie, the noted town planner, and Mr J. H. Foreshaw, the London County Council’s architect, who have worked on it for two years. The mai» proposals are: First, an embankment and new cultural centre on the south bank of the Thames, and also an extension of the Albert Embankment to London Bridge, with new river bridges and tunnels; secondly, self-contained communities surrounded by open spaces and linked by a new ring and radial roads; thirdly, decentralisation of 500,000 people wit lithe resultant rebuilding of the congested areas, also provision of inexpensive East End flats for workers.
The proposals intended for immediate execution include the reconstruction of 1500 acres of congested areas in Stepney and Poplar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25275, 12 July 1943, Page 2
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