#newtowns — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #newtowns, aggregated by home.social.
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Rail must shape England’s new communities http://dlvr.it/TRrr6y #FridayForum #InDepth #NewTowns #News
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Rail must shape England’s new communities http://dlvr.it/TRrplZ #FridayForum #InDepth #NewTowns #News
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Blimey. The old "Red Balloon" advert for the then new Town (now city) of Milton Keynes with music by Michael Nyman (link to youtube video) #UK #80s #NewTowns #MichaelNyman #MiltonKeynes https://youtu.be/EOC8wtkzcrk?si=9cMcjh0aGnY598gs
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On a rainy Sunday, I'm sharing this heart-warming documentary about public art in Scotland's post-war New Towns: Meet You At The Hippos, presented by Scottish actor Mark Bonnar. It's four years old, but I’ve watched it a number of times and it never fails to make me think and to produce a smile or five.
Here's the official blurb about the hour long documentary:
"Actor Mark Bonnar is on a mission to understand more about the Scottish new towns in which he grew up, exploring the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He discovers why the new towns are there and how they enticed people out of the bigger cities, and uncovers the surprising ways in which public art changed the new towns and the new towns changed public art. Mark's father, Stan, made sculptures that stand to this day on the streets of Glenrothes, East Kilbride and the Scottish new town that never was, Stonehouse. These new towns employed town artists to make artworks in the very housing precincts the new residents were moving into.”
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=epFuvRsoldY
#PublicArt #PublicSculpture #TownArtists #ScottishNewTowns #NewTowns #Scotland #MarkBonnar #SocialHistory #Documentary
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Tom Forth writes about New Towns in the Netherlands.
https://tomforth.co.uk/newcities/ #NewTowns #Cities -
Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announces plans to hire 508 new employees, aiming to support government housing policies and stimulate job market.
#YonhapInfomax #LH #EmploymentRecruitment #HousingSupply #NewTowns #JobMarket #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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Is a new town coming to an area near you?
Apparently, when Keir Starmer makes announcement about the progress of Labour's New Town Taskforce, he will tell us that 100 places have applied to access the New Town funding.... they will now be assessed, not least on the extent of available (proximate) infrastructure.
How quickly & how far this will contribute to the plane to deliver 1.5m extra homes remains to be seen...
h/t FT
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Is one part of the solution to the long-running housing crisis to build new towns, but build them in a more sustainable, less car-dependent manner?
Despite the conspiracy guff, the notion of the 15 minute town is really where we need to be headed....
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Labour’s new towns would be ‘filled with illegal migrants’ says Tory minister | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-tories-migrants-new-towns-b2435115.html#Labour
#NewTowns
#Tory
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#IllegalMigration
#IllegalMigrants
#Refugees
#Jenrick
#HomeOffice
#Starmer
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Watched 'New Town Utopia' recently... a film about utopian dreams and concrete realities. The challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex.
Highly recommended folks, a brilliant documentary... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvBtJ5DTRrM - and available on Amazon Prime at the moment I think...
#NewTowns #architecture #film #documentary #Basildon #concrete
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From the mid-late 1950s, some extracts from a small brochure giving an overview of Crawley in West Sussex. Crawley, an existing settlement, was designated a New Town in 1947 and was one of a number developed around London to deal with the capital’s population overspill. It would grow rapidly over the next two decades.
