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Not sure that Milton Keynes "Home of the Roundabout" and the other new towns in the UK don't count.

• makomk 8y ago
  Well, Milton Keynes was built incrementally as people arrived to fill it, and it and the other new towns definitely had an economic reason to exist - the existing towns couldn't handle increasing urbanisation and the growth of businesses that relied on that. It did end up with rather more light industrial space and slightly more offices than necessary due to the decline of British industry, but nothing like the kind of speculative building described here. I don't think such mass speculative building would even have been economically possible; if I remember rightly, the housing construction was done by the usual home-building companies who needed to be able to sell off their houses to residents in order to afford the next tranche.
  • walshemj 8y ago
    It was very centrally planned in what to day would seem very creepy eg segregated housing for workers, supervisors and executives.