
While the garden cities had shown it was possible to find a new way
to live, the devastation of the second world war brought with it the
realisation that the entire nation deserved a new future. This chapter
looks at the conditions in which communities were living in the postwar
period, and the ambition and evolution of the new towns programme
from the 1940s through to the end of the 20th century. It explores the
new town designation process and the key delivery vehicles, the new
town development corporations; how they were funded; some of the
common characteristics shared by all new towns, and what it was like to
be a new town resident.
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