
Space for social and community
development
Provision for social and community
development included locating community
facilities within a short walking distance
of homes and designing multifunctional
spaces (a school doubling up as a
community centre, for example). The
development corporations also made a
conscious eort to encourage participation
in the arts as part of community
development. This strength can be seen
in all three ‘waves’ of new towns (Figs 3.19
and 3.20).
Living in the New Towns
The new towns programme was pioneering
not only in the scale of its ambition but in
the spirit of the earliest new town settlers.
These people moved ...