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Maps That Never Happened
- arethuza 12y agoI can add these ones. A plan for a motorway round the centre of Edinburgh: http://www.gcat.org.uk/blog/?tag=edinburgh-motorways http://www.gcat.org.uk/blog/?tag=edinburgh-motorways Churchill's Operation Unthinkable for an attack on the Soviet armies in Eastern Europe by Western forces in the aftermath of WW2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable
- agumonkey 12y agoOn a smaller scale in the town next mine lies a very large roundabout that I took as an urban design wart. Recently I accidentally learned [1] that it was built to fill the hole left for a national road exchanger. The national road project never completed due to public resistance. [1] partially thanks to wikipedia
- Stratoscope 12y agoMind mentioning the town? It would be interesting to see what this looks like from the air.
- agumonkey 12y agohttps://www.google.fr/maps/place/Clichy-sous-Bois/@48.9047942,2.5487651,256m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x47e613dc885d9ea7:0x40b82c3688b3c20 https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Clichy-sous-Bois/@48.904794... The actual roundabout is average, but you can see an outer ring. Few years ago there were no buildings around it, it was raw grass. It was planned mid 60s, with the whole large scale urban projects craze. Here some original layouts http://imgur.com/a/ogD1V#0 http://imgur.com/a/ogD1V#0